The Statue

Sold at (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) in 1926; {1} Probably (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England). {2} Governor Alvan T. Fuller [1878-1958], Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1920s; The Fuller Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts; Sold at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, in 1961; {3} (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England) in 1961; Mrs. George Henry Alexander Clowes of Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1965; {4} Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana; On long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Courtesy of the Clowes Fund, since 1971 (C10068); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2015. {1} Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Tableaux anciens par L. Boilly, S. Bourdon, F. Casavova, H.-P. Danloux, J. Heinsius, Mlle V. Lemoisne, J.-B. Leprince, etc. [La Collection de Madame X…},, 6-7 December 1926, lot no. 119 (illustration); {2} Fuller purchased many items from Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; see Perry T. Rathbone’s introduction to the exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of the Collection of the Honorable Alvan T. Fuller, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959, pp. 7-12. This painting was not included in this exhibition. According to Rathbone, Fuller collected in the 1920s, making his last acquisitions in 1929; see above, p. 12. {3} Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Fine Pictures by Old and Modern Masters: The property of the Fuller Foundation, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1 December 1961, lot no. 72. {4} See receipt issued by Thomas Agnew & Sons to Mrs. G.H.A. Clowes, dated 19 June 1965, in IMA Clowes file (C10068).