Provenance

Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), Brussels, Belgium
Mr. D. Féron-Stoclet; by descent from the above, his grandfather Private collection; acquired May 2003

Adolphe Stoclet belonged to a generation of great collectors at the beginning of the 20th century, eruditely pursuing works of art from the earliest civilisations of China, the Near East and Egypt, as well as Europe post antiquity, and Pre-Columbian America. The Belgian industrialist and his wife Suzanne Stoclet-Stevens, niece of the painter Alfred Stevens, gave the Viennese architect Joseph Hoffman his first important commission in 1905, to build what today is now considered one of the foremost Art Deco period buildings. It housed their collection, which was already considered one of the most important of its time. After their deaths a small portion was published by Georges A. Salles, director of the French national museums, and the pieces were divided amongst their children and grandchildren.

Literature

Compare George Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1946), pl.LXI, no.326A

Publications

H. Frankfort, ‘Egyptische Beeldhouwwerken uit de Verzameling A. Stoclet te Brussel’, Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten, VII Jaargang, no.3, March 1930 (Amsterdam, 1930), S.88, abb.25

J. P. van Goidsenhoven with an introduction by Georges A. Salles and a foreword by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (Brussels, 1956), S.240