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Portrait of Melle de Vandeul

Portrait of Melle de Vandeul

possibly 1760
(French, 1704–1778)
Overall: 63.5 x 33 cm (25 x 13 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Lemoyne specialized in portrait busts of wealthy Parisians. In this case, the sitter is a close relative of important French critic and writer Denis Diderot.
  • Bouet, Paris, France
    -1952
    César M. de Hauke, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1952-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. cat. no. 52
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 136 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. no. 180
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 136 archive.org
    Hawley, Henry. “Sculptures by Jules Dalou, Henry Cros, and Medardo Rosso.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 7 (1971). p. 203, fig. 4 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. cat. no. 58
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 182 archive.org
    “Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1952.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 6 (1953). pp. 135-6 www.jstor.org
    Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1986. p. 189
    Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994. p. 198, fig. 11.17
    Grison, Marie-Noelle. "A Newly Discovered Bust of a Woman by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1342 (January 2015). Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: fig. 11
  • Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
    Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
    Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of Melle de Vandeul|url=false|author=Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne|year=possibly 1760|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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