Object details

Accession number

M3e14

Primary Creator

Jane Poupelet (Saint-Paul-Lizonne, France, 1874 - 1932, Paris)

Full title

Drake

Creation Date

1905-1910

Provenance

Exhibited at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo from 16 November to 26 December 1911.

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the exhibition's second venue, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in March 1912.

Marks

Signed (side of base): J. Poupelet
Inscribed in ink (label affixed to the base): Mlle Poupelet J. bronze / 30 Rue Dutot / Paris.
Inscribed and printed in ink (label affixed to the base): M.F.A. / Poupelet / Cat. No. 121

Dimensions

10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.)

Display Media

Bronze

Web Commentary

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Permanent Gallery Location

Blue Room

Bibliography

Cornelia Bentley Sage. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by the Members of the "Société de Peintres et de Sculpteurs" (Formerly the Société Nouvelle of Paris). Exh. cat. (Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1911), p. 47, no. 116.
Cornelia Bentley Sage. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by the Members of the "Société de Peintres et de Sculpteurs" (Formerly the Société Nouvelle of Paris). Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1912), p. 69, no. 121.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 40.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 180, no. 269.

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