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D`APRÈS GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI DIT LE BERNIN (1598-1680), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIe SIÈCLE

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Lot 33 | D'APRÈS GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI DIT LE BERNIN (1598-1680), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIe SIÈCLE
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D'APRÈS GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI DIT LE BERNIN (1598-1680), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIe SIÈCLE
David
bronze
H. 53 cm. (20 7/8 in.)




Provenance

Baron Alfred Roger de Sivry (1806-1874) et son épouse la baronne Roger de Sivry née Louise Sivri dite Bourelle de Sivry (décédée en 1903), probablement au château de Villeneuve à Pleucadeuc, Morbihan ou à Paris ; vente après décès de la baronne Roger de Sivry, Me P. Chevallier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 mars 1904, lot 157, d’où acquis par l’expert Marius Paulme pour le compte de
Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Grand Salon de son hôtel au 19 rue Spontini, Paris ; sa vente, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 juin 1912, lot 130, d’où probablement acquis par les marchands Tedesco pour le compte de la famille Stern.
Edgard-Salomon Stern (1854-1937) et Marguerite Stern née Fould (1866-1956), 20 Avenue Montaigne, Paris (selon les archives Bundesarchiv, B323/289 et B323/666) ;
D'où confisqué par le Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg suite à l'occupation allemande de la France (ERR inv. non référencé) ;
Transféré à Herrenchiemsee, Allemagne ;
Retrouvé par la Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section et transféré au Central Collecting Point, Munich, le 24 octobre 1945 (MCCP inv. 11877/1) ;
Retourné en France, le 19 septembre 1946, puis restitué à Marguerite Stern ;
Puis par descendance à son fils, Maurice Stern (1888-1962) et sa belle-fille Alice Stern née Goldschmidt (1906-2008), 5 Avenue George V, Paris ;
Puis par descendance.



Literature

A. Karbowsky, [Recueil de 31 dessins, hôtel particulier de Jacques Doucet, rue Spontini], vers 1906, INHA, Paris, cote OA 719/18.
P. Malgouyres « Apollo and Daphne, and Other Bronze Groups after Bernini », in. J. Warren (dir.), Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in and around the Peter Marino Collection, Londres, 2013, p. 75 et fig. 48-49.
C. Georgel (dir.) Jacques Doucet. Collectionneur et mécène, Paris, 2016, pp. 74-75.
J. Trey, Adrien Karbowsky. Décorateur de l’hôtel particulier de Jacques Doucet, Paris, 2022, p. 13, fig. 11-12.
J. Trey (dir.), Jacques Doucet et Moïse de Camondo : une passion pour le XVIIIe siècle, cat. exp. musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 2023, pp. 38-39, cat. 14 et p. 41, cat. 16.

Bibliographie comparative :
P. Vitry, « La collection de M. Jacques Doucet. Sculptures françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles », in. Les Arts, septembre 1903, n°21, pp. 2-19.
C. Avery et T. Clifford (dir.), Effigies & Ecstasies. Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini, cat. exp. National Galleries of Scotland, Édimbourg, 1998, pp. 90-91 et 206, cat. 42.
G. Scherf, « Jacques Doucet, un collectionneur de sculptures françaises du XVIIIe siècle », in. C. Georgel (dir.) Jacques Doucet. Collectionneur et mécène, Paris, 2016, pp. 42-57.
F. de La Moureyre, « La ‘Gallerie de Girardon’ », in. A. Maral (dir.) François Girardon (1628-1715). Le sculpteur de Louis XIV, Paris, p. 391, fig. 320, no. 12.



Further details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF DAVID, AFTER GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI (1598-1680), SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Our bronze replica is based on the famous life-size marble figure sculpted by Bernini in 1623–24 in just seven months. Originally commissioned by Cardinal Montalto, it was acquired by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and is still kept at Villa Borghese in Rome (inv. no. LXXVII). A cast of the same dimensions may have been acquired by King George IV (1762-1830) and is now at Windsor Castle (inv. no. RCIN 35459). Another was acquired by Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini (1685–1770) and is still on display in the Galleria Corsini in Rome (inv. no. 689).

The present David was formerly part of the collection of Baron Alfred Roger de Sivry (1806–1874) and his wife, Baroness Roger de Sivry, née Louise Sivri, known as Bourelle de Sivry (d. 1903). A naval officer and son of the renowned banker and collector Salomon Louis Roger, known as Baron Roger (1765–1841), Alfred Roger de Sivry lived with his wife between their Château de Villeneuve in Pleucadeuc, Morbihan, and their Paris residence. The fashion designer Jacques Doucet acquired the David at the sale held following the Baroness’s death, organized on 23 March 1904 through the expert Marius Paulme. The Doucet sale catalogue, written by curator Paul Vitry, discusses the quality of the cast and suggests that it may be French, noting that François Girardon himself owned a wax model of this composition, illustrated in one of the engravings in his gallery and listed in his inventory after his death (F. de La Moureyre, fig. 320, no. 12 and p. 423).

Between 1903 and 1906, the painter Adrien Karbowsky and the decorator Georges Hœntschel designed the rooms and hanging schemes for Doucet’s hôtel particulier at 19 rue Spontini in Paris in a spirit reminiscent of the great 18th-century collectors. A 1906 watercolor by Karbowsky clearly shows the accumulation of artworks, with bronzes displayed on Régence console-height furniture - including our David (Bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, inv. no. OA 719/18). An oil on panel by Henri Tenré, dated 1911, also depicts the sculpture in the same location, in the Grand Salon (Musée des Arts décoratifs, on loan to the Musée Angladon, Avignon, inv. 21542, illustrated in C. Georgel, 2016).
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Genre:Mythological painting
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Sculptures, Statues & Figures, Statuettes
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