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Daniel Katz Ltd
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Medium
fired clay
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed: J.DALOU
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Dimensions
22.75cm high
( 8.96 inches high)
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Provenance
Monsieur Drapé, Agen, southwest France.
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Literature:
Comparative literature:
- Maurice Dreyfous, Dalou, sa vie et son œuvre, 1903, pp. 222-223, illus..
- A. Wilson, ‘Three bronzes by Dalou’, Connoisseur, July 1960, pp. 172-173, no. 3.
- John H. Hunisak, The sculptor Jules Dalou …, [Garland, NY] 1977, pp. 81-83, figs. 34a-k.
- Biographical references:
- The dictionary of art, Macmillan 1996, entry Dalou by John M. Hunisak, and rev. ed. online, www.groveart.com.
- The encyclopedia of sculpture, 3 vols., ed. by Antonia Boström, Fitzroy Dearborn 2004, pp. 391-394, entry on Dalou by Cheryl Snay.
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Exhibition History:
Jules Dalou. The subject in late-nineteenth-century sculpture, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., USA, 30 May-7 September 1998.
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Description / Expertise
This is one of the preparatory clay models which Dalou made in the early 1890s for a marble commissioned by Monsieur Drap? from Agen in southwest France (Lot-et-Garonne d?partement of Aquitaine region). The marble, 32 in./82 cm. high, was ready for sending in July 1894 - the plaster version from which it was carved having been exhibited in 1892 at the Salon of the Soci?t? nationale des Beaux-Arts (also known as Salon du Champs de Mars or Salon de la Nationale). Dalou himself noted, in an entry dated 11 July 1894:
- Nous avons termin? le groupe de M. Drap?. Enfin! Nous venons de lui faire sa toilette, et demain matin on l?emballera. En route pour Agen!
- We have finished Monsieur Drap??s group. Finally! We have just made its toilet, and tomorrow we will pack it. Off to Agen!]
- And Dreyfous, writing in 1903, added:
- Il s?agit ici d?un petit groupe en marbre, tout ? fait d?licieux, comportant un homme, une femme et un enfant. [This was a small group in marble, perfectly delicious, comprising a man, woman and child.]
- The marble is now in The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA.
- Ancient authors give different accounts of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphae. All agree that she fell in love with Theseus and that, having helped him escape from the labyrinth, she married him. She was unconsolable when Theseus abondoned her on Naxos. Although Plutarch says that she later had a family with Onarus, a priest of Bacchus, others relate that it was Bacchus himself who fell in love with her, giving her a crown of seven stars (which became a constellation after her death).
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