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拍品专文
These outstandingly sculptural and rich chenets are particularly good reproductions of an eighteenth-century model by an anonymous master bronzier. Two period examples of these chenets are known; one sold from the collection of Anna Thomson Dodge and now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (obj. no. 71.DF.114) and one exhibited at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen in 1935 (see J. Lejeaux, Exposition de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle, Palais de Charlottenborg, 25 August - 6 October, 1935, exh. cat., p. XXX), at that time the chenets were in the collection at the Château de Hautefort. With their military iconography, these chenets were probably intended for use in a masculine interior, possibly the quarters of someone with ties to the Ottoman wars in Europe earlier in the eighteenth century.
ELSIE DELORA KILVERT AND SAMUEL H. KRESS
Elsie Delora Kilvert, née Bernardo (1891-1961), was hailed by the Boston Globe upon her 1909 marriage to the cartoonist B. Cory Kilvert as "the prettiest and premier model in New York". By the 1920s, she had become the long-time companion of Samuel H. Kress (1853-1955), the retail magnate who assembled one of the most important collections of European art in the twentieth century and helped establish the National Gallery of Art. Mrs. Kilvert accompanied Kress on annual visits to Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and assisted in selecting works to furnish his duplex penthouse at 1020 Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum and just a few blocks north of Mrs. Aitken's apartment. Her contribution to the Kress Collection may even have included its very genesis: a November 1953 profile in Life magazine recounts that his collecting began around 1920, when she began bringing him to art galleries, having determined "to get Sam interested in beautiful things".
ELSIE DELORA KILVERT AND SAMUEL H. KRESS
Elsie Delora Kilvert, née Bernardo (1891-1961), was hailed by the Boston Globe upon her 1909 marriage to the cartoonist B. Cory Kilvert as "the prettiest and premier model in New York". By the 1920s, she had become the long-time companion of Samuel H. Kress (1853-1955), the retail magnate who assembled one of the most important collections of European art in the twentieth century and helped establish the National Gallery of Art. Mrs. Kilvert accompanied Kress on annual visits to Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and assisted in selecting works to furnish his duplex penthouse at 1020 Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum and just a few blocks north of Mrs. Aitken's apartment. Her contribution to the Kress Collection may even have included its very genesis: a November 1953 profile in Life magazine recounts that his collecting began around 1920, when she began bringing him to art galleries, having determined "to get Sam interested in beautiful things".