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Towards Perfection, ca. 1889

  • patination, gypsum
  • 62.2 x 32.8 x 16.3 cm
  • Inv. 1903-II

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Artist

Paul De Vigne RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1843 - Brussels 1901
sculptorsAAT

Title Towards Perfection
Date ca. 1889
Period 19th century
Medium and support patination AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) at the front, left: Paul De Vigne
Collection sculpture AAT
Object type gypsum AAT
Inventory number 1903-II
Acquisition credit purchase
De Vigne-De Nayere, Aline
Ghent
1903
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1903-II
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/39/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300055865 symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
51A7 Perfection, Completeness; 'Perfettione', 'Operatione perfetta' (Ripa) Iconclass
56F1 Desire; 'Desiderio' (Ripa) Iconclass
School / Style historicism (theory) AAT
Catalogue du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, publié par les soins de la Commision directrice / Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Albert Dutry, Joseph Casier, Louis Maeterlinck. - Gand : Imprimerie C. Annoot-Braeckman, 1909 ; Gand : Ad. Hoste, 1909 (p. 147)
Paul De Vigne 1843-1901 / Oscar Roelandts. - Gent : Koninklijke Academie van Schoone Kunsten, 1931-1932 (p. 73)
Le sculpteur Paul De Vigne 1843-1901 : Etude biographiques et catalogue des oeuvres / Mariette Fransolet. - Bruxelles : Paleis der Academiën, 1960 (p. 202, cat. 63)
'De Vigne Paul', in: De 19de-eeuwse Belgische beeldhouwkunst / Jacques Van Lennep. - Brussel : Generale Bank, [s.a.] (p. 355)
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 174 (ill.))
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 273 (ill. 87))
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