id:			149681
accession number:	1979.7
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.7
updated:		2022-01-04 16:53:15.848000

Study for "Silence" , c. 1780-89. Attributed to Louis-Philippe Mouchy (French, 1734-1801). Terracotta; overall: 26.5 x 15.3 x 16.4 cm (10 7/16 x 6 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.7

title:				Study for "Silence" 
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creation date:			c. 1780-89
creation date earliest:		1780
creation date latest:		1789
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creditline:			The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	terracotta
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Louis-Philippe Mouchy (French, 1734-1801)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 26.5 x 15.3 x 16.4 cm (10 7/16 x 6 x 6 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 20-March 9, 1980).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1980:  "Year in Review 1979," CMA Bulletin, LXVII (March 1980), cat. no. 37, p. 96, repr. p. 69.

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PROVENANCE

	Heim Gallery (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
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When originally acquired this work was understood as a sketch for the "Citizen," a figure for a monument to King Louis XV in the French city of Rheims by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In that work the figure of the "Citizen" appears at the base, opposite an allegory of law, underneath a sculpture of Louis XV. The attribution was changed, however, after research made evident that the museum's sculpture precisely matches the iconography for "Silence." Moreover, the figure differs considerably from Pigalle's final figure of the "Citizen," throwing the attribution to Pigalle in question as well. The work is now believed to be by Pigalle's close follower, Mouchy, because of its similarity to a sculpture completed in 1789 for Madame Pompadour called <em>Silence</em>, which currently resides in the Luxembourg Palace in Paris.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 37 p. 69; Mentioned: p. 58
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667

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