Joseph-Charles Marin: 1759–1834

  • Joseph-Charles Marin
    Paris, 1759 - 1834

     

    Venus and Cupid

    c. 1808

    Terracotta

    Height 32 cm

     
    PROVENANCE
    • Sigismond Bardac (1856-1919), Paris; his estate sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux anciens...sculptures...dont la vente après décès de M. Sigismond Bardac, May 10-11, 1920, lot 88 (as French School, late 18th century, illus. pl. following p. 60) 
    • London, Christie’s, March 20, 1984, lot 2 (as attributed to the Dutch School of the 19th century, “in the style of R.C. Simons.”, illus. in cat.)
    • Private collection