28F Attributed to Girolamo della Robbia. Bust of a Young Girl, ca. 1530.
Glazed terra-cotta, H (without socle): 47 cm (18/2 in.). New Haven,
Yale University Art Gallery purchased through the Maitland F. Griggs
(BA 1896 ) Fund, inv. 1950.138.
28c Back view of fig. 28 F.Notes- Crepin-Leblond 1996, 19 n. 57.
- Vitry and Briere [1904-11] 1969, 13, pi. 42, no. 3.
- Gentilini 1993, 2: 366-67; Bellandi in Gellandi 1998, 306-7, no. IV.12.
- Guy Ladriere, Paris; reproduced in Vitry and Briere [ 1904-11] 1969,
pi. 42, no. 8; Gentilini 1993, 2: 367. Most recently, see Bellandi in
Gellandi 1998; Crepin-Lablond (1996) accepts both these busts as part
of the group associated with Chateau d'Assier but is uncertain that they
can be traced to the chateau itself. They surely came from the same dec
orative program, since both bear traces of a grayish violet glaze on the
back, likely from the background of the medallions into which they
were originally set. Unless further information becomes available, it
seems reasonable to accept Vitry and Briere's association of these busts
with the Chateau d'Assier. - Vitry and Briere [1904-n] 1969, pi. 42, no. 6; Gentilini 1993, 2: 367.
- For the two Louvre busts, see Beaulieu 1978, 64-65, nos. 104-5; Tollon
1993/ 137-49/ esp. 144. - Vitry and Briere [1904-11] 1969, pi. 42, no. 5.
- Visible in a photograph reproduced in Gebelin 1927, pi. 5, no. 9; see also
Tollon 1993 144. - The Yale bust was first associated with the Assier group by McGraw
1955 , 4-7; see also Gentilini 1993, 367; Bellandi in Gentilini 1998, 306. - Galabert (1902, 50) gives 1524 as the date of initial construction on the
building, but Gebelin (1927, 48) and Vitry (1938, 332-33) qualify the
date by stating that, even if some construction began in 1524 or 1525,
the decoration of the palace cannot date before 1526, the year Galiot
was named grand ecuyer, since the emblem of his position appears on
the exterior. See also Tollon 1993.- Reproduced in Gebelin 1927, pi. 93, no. 175, and Galabert 1902, oppo
site 50. - The Chateau d'Assier was apparently owned by the dukes of Uzes in the
seventeenth century but was abandoned by the family after the death of
Francois de Crussol, duke of Uzes, in 1680. By the end of the eighteenth
century the palace was given away to avoid maintenance costs, the con
tents and the exterior decorations were sold or stripped away, and parts
of the building were demolished. Not until 1841 was the building
classified as a historic monument. See Galabert 1902, 54. - I am grateful to Mark Aronson of the Yale University Art Gallery for as
certaining the presence of a small drop of purple glaze above the proper
left ear of the bust at Yale. - Lesueur 1937, 200; Gentilini 1993, 362.
- See Chatenet 1987, 196, 212, 215, figs. 13-14, 40, 44, for images by Jean
Marot as well as by du Cerceau. - The bust is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the sur
round is in the Louvre,- see Gentilini 1993, 366-67; Bellandi in Gen
tilini 1998. - Marquand 1920, 167-74. See also Domestici 1998, 39.
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