IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29970 accession number: M.55 & A-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29970 PEOPLE ------------------- mourners musician SUBJECTS ------------------- altar urn flute lyre roses leaves foliage pine anthemion mourning music altar urn flute lyre roses leaves foliage pine anthemion mourning music CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Boizot, Louis Simon CITATIONS -------- Daniel Katz, European Sculpture The National Art Collections Fund 1997 Review A Selection of 1998 Museum Acquisitions Louis-Simon Boizot 1743-1809, Sculpteur du roi et directeur de l'atelier de sculpture à la Manufacture de Sèvres Recent acquisitions (1995-2004) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_55_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_55_1997.jpg height: 503 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_55_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_55_1997.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/large_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg height: 991 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/mid_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg height: 484 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg height: 2857 pixels width: 2951 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/613/preview_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_dc1.jpg height: 242 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/large_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg height: 953 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/mid_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg height: 465 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.55 & A-1997_1_201203_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/preview_M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.jpg height: 233 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/653/614/M_55___A_1997_1_201203_mas.ptif height: 8675 pixels width: 9318 pixels