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Mantelpiece
Mantelpiece

Mantelpiece

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born in Lithuania, also active in France), 1891–1973)
about 1928
Object PlaceFrance
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 46.5 x 150.5 x 32.7 cm, 544 kg (18 5/16 x 59 1/4 x 12 7/8 in., 1199.31 lb.)
Credit LineSamuel Putnam Avery Fund, Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow, Frederick Brown Fund, Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection, Otis Norcross Fund, Gift of Mrs. Winthrop Sargent, Bequest of G. B. Upton, and Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoë Wilbour, by exchange, and Gift of Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb
Accession number1986.4
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1928, commissioned by Jacques Doucet (b.1853 – d.1929) for the Cabinet de l'Orient, in his residence in Neuilly, France; 1929, at Doucet's death, presumably by inheritance to his wife, Jeanne Roger Doucet, Neuilly. Acquired from a private collection by Brame et Lorenceau, Paris [see note 1]; 1986, sold by Brame et Lorenceau to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: January 22, 1986)

Notes:
[1] According to information provided by Brame et Lorenceau to the MFA (December 6, 2002).

CopyrightReproduced with permission.