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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 528
Signature: On edge: "Mr. Diderot, fait en 1773 par houdon"Inscription: Inscribed on front of plinth below socle: "il eut de grands Amis et, quelques bas jaloux le Soleil plaît à l'aigle, et blesse les hiboux."
Count Alexander Sergei Stroganov ; Stroganov Family (until ca. 1918) ; Stroganov Palace Museum / Hermitage (until 1931; sale of Stroganov collection belonging to Soviets, Rudolph Lepke's Auction House, Berlin, May 12, 1931, no. 225); Thomas Fortune Ryan ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (until 1974; to MMA)
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