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Autumn (one of a pair)

Designer Ange Jacques Gabriel French
1745–47
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 548
This vase, along with its mate by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, was part of a set of four designed for the royal Château de Choisy by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel. None of the vases, however, was ever sent to Choisy. The Museum's pair was given by Louis XV to the marquis de Marigny, the marquise de Pompadour's brother, who placed them in his own château at Ménars, where they remained until the beginning of this century. The other pair, decorated with the attributes of Spring, was made by Jacques Verbeckt and is divided between the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the château at Malmaison.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Autumn (one of a pair)
  • Artist: Nicholas Sébastien Adam the Younger (French, 1705–1778)
  • Designer: Ange Jacques Gabriel (French, Paris 1698–1782 Paris)
  • Date: 1745–47
  • Culture: French, Paris or Versailles
  • Medium: Marble
  • Dimensions: Overall, confirmed, wt. includes strapping and accessories for rigging: 69 3/4 × 52 1/2 in., 3640 lb. (177.2 × 133.4 cm, 1651.1 kg)
    Base (Modern marble and cinderblock base, wt. confirmed): 3718 lb. (1686.5 kg)
  • Classification: Sculpture
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Rogers Fund, 1966
  • Object Number: 66.29.2
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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