Amphitrite

Artist Michel Anguier (French, 1612-1686)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1654-1658

DimensionsH: 86 in. (218.5 cm)

MediumLimestone

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1973.47

Not on View

Published ReferencesArchives Nationales 01 1964 (Inventory of Saint-Mandé, February 26, 1666).

M. B. (Germain Brice) La Description de Paris, 1684, I, p. 194; (2nd ed., 1694, I, p. 184; 3rd ed., 1698, I, p. 323; 7th ed., 1718, II, p. 53; 9th ed., 1752, II, p. 204.

Piganiol de la Force, Description historique de la ville de Paris et de ses environs, 2nd ed., Paris, 1765, IX, p. 137.

Hurtaut, P., Dictionnaire historique de la ville de Paris et de ses environs, Paris, 1779, II, p. 335.

Chamchine, B., La Château de Choisy, Paris, 1910, p. 36. (xerox in folder).

Charageat, M., "La Statue d'Amphitrite et la suite des dieux et des déesses de Michel Anguier," (Resumeé), Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'art Francais, 1941-1944, pp. 72-73.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louis XIV: faste et decors, May-October 1960, p. 138, cited under no. 701.

Charageat, M., "La Statue d'Amphitrite et la suite des dieux et des déesses de Michel Anguier," Archives de l'art francais, XXIII, 1968, pp. 111-123, passim. Reproduced opp. p. 112.

Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Europaische Barockplastik am Niederrheim, April 4-June 20, 1971, p. 351, cited under no. 319.

Draper, J.D., "For the Love of Leda," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXX, no. 2, October-November 1971, pp. 51-58. Reproduced p. 56, fig. 8.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 83, no. 1261, Feb. 1974, p. 124, repr.

"Art Across North America," Apollo, vol. 99, no. 147, May 1974, repr. p. 377.

"Public Museum News," Art Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, Spring 1974, p. 262.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 19, nos. 2 & 3, 1976, p. 59, repr.

The Toledo Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, repr. p. 61.

Schulze, Franz, "'A Consistantly Discriminating Connoisseurship,'" Art News, vol. 76, no. 4, Apr. 1977, p. 67.

Raggio, Olga, "Sculpture in the Grand Manner: Two groups by Anguier and Monnot," Apollo, vol. 106, no. 189, Nov. 1977, pp. 364, 365, repr. fig. 6, p. 367.

Black, Bernard and Hughes-W. Nadeau, Michel Anguier's Pluto: the marble of 1669, London, 1990, p. 16, no. 3.

Ducan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, repr. p. 18.

Labesse, Paul, Les frères Anguier: sculpteurs eudois, Eu, Amys du vieil Eu, 2008, pp. 50, 53, fig. 48.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Blunt, Anthony, Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700, London and Baltimore, 1953, p. 224 (note 280 refers to the 1943 Charageat article).

cf. Souchal, François, Les Slodtz, Paris, 1967, p. 289.