This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Rich American buyers add rare French sculpture to art cache
Judge B H Gary buys the Houdon bust of Sabine Houdon from Duveen for over 106000 dollars. Eight Beauvais tapestries from 1762, designed for a ballroom, come to America after years in the Gatellier family. J Pierpont Morgan acquires Fra Lippo Lippi’s St. Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors for the Metropolitan. Duveen hall displays the Gatesier set of Boucher cartoons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. H. Gary
The
Steel Corporation
Sabine Hourion
Jean Antoine Houdon
Duveen Brothers
Fifth Avenue
New York
Jacques Doucet
Paris
Gary
Sabine Houdon
Babine
M. Duval
M. Doucet
America
Beauvais
Louis XV
Comte de Gatellier
Gatellier
St. Lawrence
Fra Lippo Lippi
J. Pierpont Morgan
Duveens
Europe
Metropolitan Museum
Fra Lippo
Vincignata
Estry
Duveen
Francois Boucher
Madame de Pompadour
Boucher
Henry B. Huntington
Los Angeles
Fran Lippo Lippi