1592996144000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-29970 1758779122415 1615981503000 1758779118134 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-29970 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29970 2aa55255-1ee2-3e67-9ea9-89601c70b16e 9 person reference agent-156427 adlib-agent-156427 07e37f4e-30f5-3b60-97ce-afaab70ddd89 mourners person reference agent-150959 adlib-agent-150959 533d8a4c-ba3c-3188-96f0-9ccd30576357 musician reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture reference term-27716 adlib-term-27716 246eefd8-f18b-3c47-8338-d68140b3497e gilt reference term-32657 adlib-term-32657 48738423-5a06-33af-bb0f-e0e48e864331 paint Base Decoration reference term-32234 adlib-term-32234 96ff7097-33c1-398e-891e-22b7705b69fe wood (plant material) Base reference term-33162 adlib-term-33162 6f1730c6-1049-36b9-80ae-d22bc9d2254c terracotta Figure Depth cm 24 Height cm 7.5 Length cm 42 Wood Base Height cm 36.5 Terracotta Width cm 36.5 Terracotta Base reference term-110500 adlib-term-110500 6dc34c6c-d553-36b2-b489-9797a89deeea society/human life reference term-23557 adlib-term-23557 194aa9d9-b56f-3c7d-8624-28305a4d3af5 arts/architecture Applied Arts Terracotta, on contemporary painted and parcel-gilt wood base (A). Off centre of the group stands an altar surmounted by an urn, the front of the former bearing a tablet inscribed with the letters D.O.M. over a three line illegible inscription, and below it, a winged lyre and foliage. A veiled but demi-nude mourning female figure wearing a medallion with the portrait of a young man on a chain around her neck, is standing on its right side, fastening a garland of roses onto the urn. To the left stands a young girl playing the flute, and holding in her right hand a circlet of pine which she is about to place on the altar. The base is oval and painted pale grey. It has a row of beading round the upper moulding and stylised leaves round the lower moulding. Between them is a vertical area broken by four projecting pilasters. On the former there are alternating anthemions and palmettes, and on each of the latter, a rosette, all in relief, and gilt. M.55 & A-1997 1 accession number M.55 & A-1997 29970 priref 29970 Art UK external ID CAM_CCF_M_55 & A_1997 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29970 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29970 signed and dated on back of altar inscribed BOIZOT SCULPTOR REGIS FECIT/Anno 1790 signature reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Cunliffe and Perrins Funds, with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund, and the M&GC Regional Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum reference agent-156599 adlib-agent-156599 d6c21c18-2848-3647-b25a-153fda997805 Daniel Katz Ltd. 1997 1997 1997 bought Entry date: 1997-12-05 1790 CE 1790 dated 1790 sculptor reference agent-14348 adlib-agent-14348 b5e380f8-3def-3205-91d6-f1b3beda90b3 Boizot, Louis Simon Simon-Louis Boizot was born at Gobelins where his father was designer at the royal tapestry factory. He trained in the studio of the sculptor, Michel-Ange Slodtz, and, having won the Prix de Rome in 1762, spent five years there from 1765 to 1770. After his return to Paris he was appointed director of the sculpture department of the Sèvres porcelain factory in 1773, but continued his work as a freelance sculptor. The delicacy of the modelling, and fine detail of this terracotta suggests that it was not conceived as a model for a larger monument in a different medium, but as a finished sculpture in its own right. The older woman may represent Erato, the muse of lyric poetry, for the lyre on the front of the pedestal supporting the funerary urn, suggests that the ashes it contained were those of a poet. Possibly it was commissioned to commemorate Chevalier Antoine Bertin, a captain in the French cavalry, who published a volume of poems, L'Amour, in 1780, and died aged thirty-seven in 1790. reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-14265 adlib-term-14265 b9f6d73e-26ce-3588-a519-976c2cc93f7f Louis XVI reference term-129470 adlib-term-129470 8353db27-fba9-33c1-94a1-f268fd2a2d21 Paris reference media-15542 adlib-media-15542 01197cee-3f98-387b-a195-cf2323dad999 jpeg aa/aa19/M_55_1997.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 756 1616238221927 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/mid_M_55_1997.jpg 1 height pixels 503 width pixels 500 1616238221927 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/M_55_1997.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 756 1616238221927 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/preview_M_55_1997.jpg 1 height pixels 251 width pixels 250 1616238221927 1 image 0 media image reference media-151128637 portfolio portfolio-media-151128637 a02d73cc-71fc-36fa-8ac2-3b704137a113 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/large_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 991 width pixels 1024 1559569253000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/mid_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 484 width pixels 500 1559569253000 1 image M.55 & A-1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg 1559569253000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/preview_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 242 width pixels 250 1559569253000 1 image 1 media image reference media-1594344431 portfolio portfolio-media-1594344431 89cf2a77-e143-3b90-9ff9-be31f24bdfe0 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/large_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 953 width pixels 1024 1559569291000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/mid_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 465 width pixels 499 1559569291000 1 image M.55 & A-1997_1_201203_mas.tif 1559569291000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/preview_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 233 width pixels 250 1559569291000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 8675 width pixels 9318 1559569291000 1 image 2 media image reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group reference term-30876 adlib-term-30876 17157b2f-222f-35be-9d1b-8cfa142b8358 base history note Joseph Bardac sale, Paris 9th December 1927, lot 54; Marius Paulme sale Paris, 15th May 1929, lot 270; Galerie Charpentier sale, Paris, 20th December 1949, lot 103. Daniel Katz Ltd., London. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Sculpture UK Sculpture UK Publ. Illustrated, pp. 112-3, no. 53. See also pp. 114-5, no. 54, a bust of Napoleon as First Consul by Boizot. pp. 112-5 reference publication-1242 adlib-publication-1242 38d208fa-bb14-3e21-8357-c28b6525f0c2 Daniel Katz, European Sculpture Publ. Illustrated, p. 60, 4409 p. 60 reference publication-1179 adlib-publication-1179 8f4bbc55-73e8-3d82-b635-52e8e6e998fc The National Art Collections Fund 1997 Review Publ. Illustrated, p. 32 p. 32 reference publication-200000783 adlib-publication-200000783 547908cd-5a23-3035-8466-e2f6d4556f10 A Selection of 1998 Museum Acquisitions Publ. pp. 146-7, no. 40. The authors note that the terracotta was probably exhibited in the Salon of 1795, no. 1009. 146-7 reference publication-4682 adlib-publication-4682 a1b4c4b7-1036-3bca-8e11-e6aad3ac7fef Louis-Simon Boizot 1743-1809, Sculpteur du roi et directeur de l'atelier de sculpture à la Manufacture de Sèvres Publ. pl. XVII 510 reference publication-200001861 adlib-publication-200001861 1cca6257-ddc6-3bb1-ab40-c8f8ed41b9f2 Recent acquisitions (1995-2004) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Publ. p. 161 colour illustration with brief text 161 reference publication-382 adlib-publication-382 ee5148de-e3eb-3d38-88db-9a331edf70b6 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9044 adlib-term-9044 99dcb503-1a64-3792-8a40-48eda95dd763 Neoclassical object name reference term-45787 adlib-term-45787 c771f626-b476-3a72-8dea-beb6566630bf altar object name reference term-70251 adlib-term-70251 b2375d85-ca66-33a9-9f28-141b3138aca4 urn object name reference term-106805 adlib-term-106805 93bd4944-6b95-3d1e-911e-38c8023b2401 flute object name reference term-92289 adlib-term-92289 a68f0b86-a6a2-3a73-a5aa-c22190983802 lyre plant reference term-51573 adlib-term-51573 ab22aab4-7391-3892-8111-eec7278d2f0e roses plant reference term-107438 adlib-term-107438 7a134fa2-3953-3e66-a1d9-c974dddbd79c leaves plant reference term-30746 adlib-term-30746 c9b49335-33a0-3ee8-b9d3-3f1f3abc5414 foliage plant reference term-38853 adlib-term-38853 68c617ba-f41f-3df7-8c6e-216682399c63 pine plant reference term-4753 adlib-term-4753 213db2b7-bcf0-3d18-990a-ce9974205cee anthemion activity reference term-2704 adlib-term-2704 aa6600d3-5065-31ca-b1cd-d3641b03609e mourning activity reference term-23596 adlib-term-23596 f5fe6ab7-fea6-31d5-8f77-1ad5f40613cc music literal altar altar literal urn urn literal flute flute literal lyre lyre literal roses roses literal leaves leaves literal foliage foliage literal pine pine literal anthemion anthemion literal mourning mourning literal music music

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