Finding Aid for the Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon, 1930-1977 FARL.0100.020.01

Summary Information

Repository
The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives10 East 71st Street
New York, NY, 10021
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Creator
Frick Art Reference Library.
Title
Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon
ID
FARL.0100.020.01
Date
1930-1977
Extent
6.75 Linear feet  (8 boxes, oversize material)
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. The papers reflect her lifelong interest in the sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) and document the research she and the Frick Art Reference Library staff conducted over the course of nearly fifty years. The Research Files span the years 1930-1977, and contain typed and handwritten research notes, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and typescript drafts of articles and unpublished manuscripts.

Preferred Citation

Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon. The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

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Historical Note

Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. Miss Frick published two periodical articles ("Houdon and Rembrandt Peale" in Antiques, July 1934 and "Madame Jean Antoine Houdon" in  Art Bulletin, September 1947), wrote an unpublished manuscript "The Life of Jean Antoine Houdon," and began a catalogue raisonné of Houdon's works, which was never completed. Much of her research on Houdon's work was also incorporated into the information recorded on the Houdon photo mounts in the Library's Photoarchive.

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Scope and Content Note

This collection reflects Helen Clay Frick's lifelong interest in the life and works of sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), and documents the research she and the Frick Art Reference Library staff conducted over the course of nearly fifty years. The records span the years 1930-1977, with the bulk of the documents dating from the 1930s-1940s. The collection also includes printed material, 1914-1964. The collection contains typed and handwritten research notes, correspondence, photographs, Library photo mounts, publications, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescript drafts and engraved copper plates.

The materials are organized in nine series: Series I: Typescript Drafts, Series II: Correspondence/Memos, Series III: Works of Houdon, Series IV: Related Works/Artists, Series V: Transcriptions of Houdon Correspondence, Series VI: Miscellaneous Research Notes, Series VII: Printed Material, Series VIII: Research of Isobel Binks (Frick Art Reference Library staff member), and Series IX: Research of Clotilde Brière (Frick Art Reference Library staff member based in Europe).

Of special interest are Miss Frick's unpublished manuscripts on the life and work of Houdon [Series I: Typescript Drafts, Box 1]. The approximately 110-page draft of Miss Frick's The Life of Jean Antoine Houdon or  The Life of Houdon Revealed Through His Unpublished Correspondence and Other Documents is represented by six typescripts in various stages of completion. The  Catalogue of Houdon's Work manuscript is in a much more preliminary phase, consisting of organized notes and photographs, with an introduction written by Miss Frick.

Also of note in the collection are photostats and transcriptions of select Houdon letters [Series V: Transcriptions of Houdon Correspondence, Box 5]. The originals of these Houdon letters, acquired from Jean Perron Houdon by Clotilde Brière for Miss Frick in the 1930s, were bequeathed to the Bibliotheque Municipale de Versailles (5 rue de l'Independence Americaine, 78000 Versailles, France) in Miss Frick's will. Correspondence related to the acquisition of the letters is stored in Box 7 with Ms. Brière's files. Additional Brière correspondence related to her Houdon research and the purchase of Houdon's letters can be found in the records of Clotilde Brière in The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives. Files in Series III: Works of Houdon, and in the same subcategory under Research of Isobel Binks and Clotilde Brière, form the bulk of the collection. Series III: Works of Houdon contains individual files for each subject/title of a Houdon work, as well as those of questionable attribution. Files contain handwritten and typed research notes, correspondence, photographs, and related newspaper and magazine clippings. The research notes include such information as title, owner, provenance, date, size, material, exhibitions, bibliography, comments on attribution, and biographical and background information on the subject of the work. Correspondence not related to a specific Houdon work, but instead to more general research, is filed in Series II: Correspondence/Memos.

Oversize documents are stored separately in Box 9. Reduced-size photocopies replace the originals in Boxes 1-8.

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Arrangement

The materials are organized in nine series:

Series I: Typescript Drafts

Series II: Correspondence/Memos

Series III: Works of Houdon

Series IV: Related Works/Artists

Series V: Transcriptions of Houdon Correspondence

Series VI: Miscellaneous Research Notes

Series VII: Printed Material

Series VIII: Research of Isobel Binks (Frick Art Reference Library staff)

Series IX: Research of Clotilde Brière (Frick Art Reference Library staff)

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

These records are open for research under the conditions of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives access policy. Contact the Archives Department for further information at archives@frick.org.

Processing Information

Arranged and described by Susan Chore, 2000.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

An additional 12.5 linear feet of Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon are owned by the Helen Clay Frick Foundation and are currently on deposit at The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

Clotilde Brière Records, The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives contain additional correspondence related to research on Houdon and the acquisition of Houdon's letters.

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Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Binks, Isobel B.
  • Brière-Misme, Clotilde.
  • Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984.
  • Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828.

Subject(s)

  • Sculptors--France--Correspondence.
  • Sculpture, French.

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Collection Inventory

Series I: Typescript Drafts, 1947-1948
 

Typescript drafts of two unpublished works on Houdon by Helen Clay Frick: a catalogue raisonné and a biography. Drafts are annotated and include some loose notes, photographs and related correspondence. The catalogue raisonné is in a preliminary stage, consisting primarily of organized notes and photographs. The biography is represented by six drafts, four partial and two complete. Typescripts were assigned identifying numbers not related to chronology.

Arranged by assigned numbers.
Box Folder Date
1 1-2

Catalogue of Houdon's Work Typescript Draft [2 folders]
 

 undated

The Life of Houdon Revealed Through His Unpublished Correspondence and Other Documents, Typescript Drafts
 
Box Folder Date
1 3

Typescript 1, "1st Manuscript" (partial, pp. 1-45)
 

 1948
1 4

Typescript 2, "2nd Manuscript" (partial, pp. 1-101 with gaps)
 

 1948
1 5

Typescript 3a (pp. 1-110)
 

 1948 Jan.
1 6

Typescript 3b (pp. 1-110)
 

 1948 Jan.
1 7

Typescript 4 (partial, pp. 43-108 with gaps)
 

 1948
1 8-9

Typescript 5 (pp. 1-115) [2 folders]
 

 circa 1947-1948

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Series II: Correspondence/Memos, 1931-1954
 

Arranged alphabetically, with general correspondence filed first. Chronological within folders.

Primarily the correspondence/memos of Helen Clay Frick and Library staff with staff researchers Isobel Binks and Clotilde Brière regarding their findings about Houdon works. Also contains letters from museums and galleries relating information about Houdon works or regarding the purchase of photographs. Of note are Isobel Binks' detailed reports of her 1938 research trip to Paris where she visited dealers, museums, restorers, and private owners in tracking down authentic and fake Houdons. Correspondence related to a specific Houdon work are filed in Series III. Works of Houdon under subject/title.
Box Folder Date
1 10

General
 

 1935-1963
2 1-2

Binks, Isobel [2 folders]
 

 1933-1954, undated
2 3

Brière, Clotilde
 

 1931-1938, 1948
2 4

National Gallery of Art (Charles Seymour, Jr.)
 

Contains photographs of works by or attributed to Houdon in the National Gallery (Alexandre and Louise Brongniart and Voltaire) and the bust of George Washington at Mount Vernon.

 1947

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Series III: Works of Houdon, 1930-1977
 

Arranged alphabetically by subject of work.

Contains research notes, Frick Art Reference Library photo mounts, photographs and magazine cuts, and correspondence related to both confirmed Houdon works and those of questionable attribution. Materials are filed alphabetically by subject; subjects with multiple works are filed together. Most of the items are undated, but the bulk are assumed to be from the 1930s-1940s.

SEE ALSO: Series I: Typescript Drafts - Catalogue of Houdon's Works Typescript Draft for additional notes and photographs, and Series XIII: Research of Isobel Binks and Series IX: Research of Clotilde Brière for their own notes on individual works by Houdon.
Box Folder Date
2 5

Adelaide, Madame
 

 undated
2 6

Alexander the Great
 

 1938-1939, undated
2 7

Apollo
 

 1948, 1973, undated
2 8

Arnould, Sophie
 

 undated
2 9

Aubert, L'Abbé
 

 undated
2 10

Audéod, Anne
 

 undated
2 11

Baby, Bust of
 

 undated
2 12

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
 

 undated
2 13

(Le) Baiser
 

 undated
2 14

(Le) Baiser donné
 

 1975, undated
2 15

(Le) Baiser rendu
 

 undated
2 16

Barlow, Joel
 

SEE ALSO: Engraved copper plates stored in Box 10.

 1974, undated
2 17

Barnave, Joseph
 

SEE ALSO: Engraved copper plates stored in Box 10.

 undated
2 18

Barthélemy, Abbé Jean-Jacques
 

 undated
2 19

Bather (Baigneuse)
 

 1954, undated
2 20

Belisarius
 

 undated
2 21

Biré, Charles Francois Fontaine, Marquis de
 

 undated
2 22

Bonaparte, Princess Lucien
 

 undated
2 23

Bordas-Pardoux
 

 1936, undated
2 24

Bouillé, Pierre, Marquis de
 

 undated
2 25

Boy, Bust of
 

 1969
2 26

Brongniart, Alexandre
 

 1950, 1974, undated
2 27

Brongniart, Louise
 

 1964, undated
2 28

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
 

 1938, 1974, undated
2 29

Cagliostro, Conte Alessandro
 

 1947, 1961, undated
2 30

Catherine II, Empress of Russia
 

 1939, undated
2 31

Caumartin, Antoine-Louis-Francois LeFevré de
 

 undated
2 32

Centaur
 

 1937
2 33

Ceres
 

 undated
2 34

Ceres and Minerva; Jupiter and Pluto
 

 undated
2 35

Charrière, Madame de
 

 undated
2 36

Chénier, Marie-Joseph
 

 undated
2 37

Chevreuse, Duchesse de
 

 undated
2 38

Choiseul-Praslin, César-Gabriel, Duc de
 

 undated
2 39

Cicero
 

 undated
2 40

Collin d'Harleville, Jean-Francois
 

 undated
2 41

Condorcet, Marquis de
 

 1938-1939, undated
2 42

Créqui, Marquise de
 

 undated
2 43

Cupid
 

 1966
2 44

D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond
 

 1935, undated
2 45

Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie
 

 undated
2 46

Dead Thrush
 

 1934, undated
2 47

Death of a hero - Drawing
 

 1932, undated
2 48

Diana
 

 1952, 1954, undated
2 49

Diane Chasseresse
 

 undated
2 50

Diderot, Denis
 

 1948-1970, undated

Drawing - Grief consoled by Justice who points to Renown. SEE: Tomb of Monsieur Guillard
 

Drawing. SEE Death of a Hero.
 
2 51

Du Cayla, Comtesse
 

 undated
2 52

Du Paty, Jean-Baptiste Mercier
 

 undated
2 53

Dumouriez, Charles-Francois
 

 undated
2 54

Duquesnoy, Adrien-Cyprien
 

 undated
2 55

Duquesnoy, Madame
 

 undated
2 56

Eagle attacking a Deer
 

 undated
3 1

L'Ecorche (The Flayed Man)
 

 undated
3 2

Ernest-Louis II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha
 

 undated
3 3

Eté (Summer)
 

 1932, 1939, undated
3 4

Fontaine, Jean de la
 

 1949, 1968, undated
3 5

Fountain (Monceau) - Model
 

 undated
3 6

Franklin, Benjamin
 

 1947-1975, undated
3 7

Franquieres, Aymon de
 

 undated
3 8

Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha
 

 undated
3 9

Friedrich Franz I, Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 

 undated
3 10

(La) Frileuse (Winter)
 

 1964-1970, undated
3 11

Fulton, Robert
 

 1951, undated

Galitzin, Mikhail Mikhailovitch. SEE Tomb of Mikhail Mikhailovitch Galitzin.
 
3 12

Gerbier de la Masselaye, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste
 

 undated
3 13

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
 

 1937-1972, undated
3 14

Grand, Rodolphe Ferdinand
 

 1946, undated
3 15

Grandménil, Madame de
 

 1934, undated
3 16

Greneville, Camus
 

 undated
3 17

Greyhound (Lévrier)
 

 undated
3 18

Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior
 

 undated
3 19

Guibert, Comte de, Jacques Antoine Hippolite
 

 undated

Guillard. SEE Tomb of Monsieur Guillard.
 
3 20

Haudry, Le President
 

 undated
3 21

Henry, Prince of Prussia
 

 undated
3 22

His, Madame
 

 undated
3 23

Hoogendijk, Steven
 

 1936, undated
3 24

Houdon, Ann Ange
 

 undated
3 25

Houdon, Claudine
 

 1951-1973, undated
3 26

Houdon, Madame
 

 circa late 1940s, undated
3 27

Houdon, Madame and her Daughter
 

 undated
3 28

Houdon, Sabin
 

 1949-1959, undated
3 29

Houze, Baroness de la
 

Note on original folder: Huntington Collection.

 undated
3 30

Jaucourt, Comtesse de
 

 undated
3 31

Jefferson, Thomas
 

 undated
3 32

Jones, John Paul
 

 1931-1975, undated
3 33

Josephine, Empress
 

 undated
3 34

Joubert, General Barthélemy-Catherine
 

 undated
3 35

Lafayette, Marquis de
 

 1936, 1975, undated
3 36

Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme Le Francois
 

 undated
3 37

Laplace, Pierre-Simon
 

 undated
3 38

Larive (Jean Mauduit)
 

 1975-1976, undated
3 39

Lenoir
 

 undated
3 40

Lignereux, Mlle.
 

 1969, undated
3 41

Louis XVI
 

 undated
3 42

Louis, Antoine
 

 undated
3 43

Louise, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 

 undated
3 44

(A) Magistrate
 

 undated
3 45

Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de
 

 undated
3 46

Méjanes, Marquis de
 

 undated
3 47

Mentelle, Edmond
 

 undated
3 48

Minerva
 

 undated
3 49

Mirabeau, Comte de
 

 1932, undated
3 50

Miromesnil, Marquis de
 

 1937-1976, undated
3 51

Molière
 

 1967, undated
3 52

Montenoy, Charles Palissot de
 

 undated
3 53

Montgolfier, Joseph and Étienne
 

 1938, undated
3 54

Montjay, Comtesse
 

 undated
3 55

Morpheus
 

 undated
3 56

Moustier, Comtesse de
 

 undated
3 57

Napolean I
 

 undated
3 58

Necker, Jacques
 

 undated
3 59

Negress, Bust of
 

 1947, undated
3 60

Ney, Marshal
 

 undated
3 61

Nicolay, Aymard-Jean de
 

 undated
3 62

Nivernais, Louis-Jules Mancini, Duc de
 

 undated
3 63

Noailles, Comte de
 

 undated
3 64

Olivier, Mlle.
 

 1968-1969, undated
3 65

(La) Petite Lise
 

 1968, undated
3 66

Petrovitch, Comte Ivan
 

 undated
3 67

Peyre, Madame
 

 1972, undated
3 68

Pleur et Rire
 

 undated
3 69

Préameneu, Comte Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de
 

 undated
3 70

Priest of Lupercalia
 

 undated
3 71

Raucourt, Mlle.
 

 1962, undated
3 72

Rillet, Madame
 

 undated
3 73

Rodde-Schlözer, Dorothea von
 

 undated
3 74

Roman Youth, Head of
 

 1968
4 1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 

 1938-1971, undated
4 2

Sabran, Comtesse de
 

 1933, 1962, undated
4 3

Saint Bruno
 

 undated
4 4

Saint Catherine
 

 1947
4 5

Saint John the Baptist
 

 undated
4 6

Saints on facade of Orleans cathedral
 

 1938-1939
4 7

Sérilly, Madame de
 

 undated
4 8

Servat, Marie Adélaïde
 

 1954, 1962, undated
4 9

Soult, Maréchal, Duke of Dalmatia
 

 undated
4 10

Suffren, Bailli de
 

 1933, 1938, undated
4 11

Thélusson, Madame de
 

 1934-1955, undated
4 12

Themis
 

 undated
4 13

Thénard, Marie-Madeleine
 

 undated
4 14

Tomb of Victor Charpentier, Comte d'Ennery
 

 1930, undated
4 15

Tomb of Mikhail Mikhailovitch Galitzin, study for
 

 undated
4 16

Tomb of Monsieur Guillard, drawing for (Grief consoled by Justice who points to Renown)
 

 1955, undated
4 17

Tourville, Maréchal de
 

 1933, undated
4 18

Tronchin, Théodore
 

 1962, undated
4 19

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne
 

 1938, 1954, undated
4 20

Unknown Girl
 

 1938-1955, undated
4 21

Unknown Man, Bust of
 

 undated
4 22

Unknown Young Man, Bust of
 

 1969
4 23

Valbelle, Comte de
 

 1939, undated
4 24

Vestal
 

 undated
4 25

Victoire, Madame
 

 undated
4 26

Vietinghoff, Baron de
 

 undated
4 27

Voltaire
 

 1932-1976, undated
4 28

Washington, George
 

 1930-1977, undated
4 29

Xaviére, Madame Marie-Adélaïde-Clotilde, de France
 

 1965, undated
4 30

Young Girl, Head of
 

 1971, undated
4 31

Young Man, Head of
 

 undated

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Series IV: Related Works/Artists, 1931-1973
 

Grouped by subject.

Contains research notes, photographs, and Frick Art Reference Library photo mounts regarding Houdon works of questionable attribution, works after Houdon, artists of the same period, and works depicting Houdon.
Box Folder Date

"Pseudo Houdons" by subject
 
Box Folder Date
4 32

A-Z, by subject name
 

 1931-1939
4 33

Artois, Duc de
 

Note on original folder: School of Jean Baptiste Pigalle.

 1947, undated
4 34

du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Samuel
 

 1946
4 35

Estaing, Comte de
 

 1939-1940, undated
4 36

Franklin, Benjamin
 

 undated
4 37

Gustave III
 

 undated
4 38

Houdon, Claudine
 

 1936
4 39

Lafayette, Marquis de
 

 circa 1950-1973
4 40

Louis XVII as Dauphin
 

 1934-1936, undated
5 1

Marshall, John
 

 1934, undated
5 2

Thélusson, Madame de
 

 undated
5 3

Washington, George
 

 1942, 1960, undated
5 4

Unidentified
 

 undated
5 5

Works after Houdon/School of Houdon
 

 1934-circa 1949

Artists
 
Box Folder Date
5 6

Clodion
 

 undated
5 7

Coysevox or Desjardin
 

 1945, undated
5 8

Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste
 

 undated
5 9

Lemoyne, Jean-Louis
 

 undated
5 10

Pajou, Augustin
 

 1941, undated
5 11

Rush, William
 

 1942, 1947, undated
5 12

Vassé, Louis-Claude
 

 1932-1934
5 13

Works depicting Houdon
 

 1947, undated

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Series V: Transcriptions of Houdon Correspondence
 

Photostats of a selection of Houdon's letters, ca. 1787-1814, followed by typed transcriptions, in French. Also includes some explanatory notes.
Box Folder Date
5 14-16

Photostats of Houdon Correspondence with Transcriptions [3 folders]
 

 undated

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Series VI: Research Notes, Miscellaneous, 1932-1951
 

Arranged chronologically.

Contains Helen Clay Frick's and Library staff's handwritten and typed notes and reference materials. Includes lists of unanswered questions to research, lists of Houdon photographs owned by the Library and those to acquire, and catalogue cards.
Box Folder Date
5 17-18

Research Notes, Miscellaneous [2 folders]
 

 1932-1951, undated

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Series VII: Printed Material, 1914-1964
 

Arranged chronologically.

Periodicals and exhibition catalogues concerning Jean Antoine Houdon. Oversize materials are stored in Box 9.
Box Folder Date
5 19

"Works of Houdon in America," Art in America
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1914 Apr.
5 20

"Houdon en Amérique," Revue de l'Art
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1914 Apr.
5 21

"Le premier salon de Houdon," Gazette des Beaux-Arts
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1923 Jan.
5 22

"Quelques Sculptures Grancaises du XVIIe Siécle en Suède," Revue de l'Art
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1924 Jun.
5 23

"Houdon Sous la Révolution et l'Empire," Gazette des Beaux-Arts
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1924 Jul.-Aug.
5 24

"Les Expositions du Centenaire de Houdon," Gazette des Beaux-Arts
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1928 Jun.
5 25

"L'Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon," Revue de l'Art
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1928 Jun.
5 26

"Le Centenaire de Houdon," Revue d l'Art
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1928 Jul.-Aug.
6 1

Centenaire de J.A. Houdon
 

Bibliothèque de Versailles, April - May, 1928

 1928
6 2

Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon, Galleries Buvelot, Paris
 

 1928
6 3

"Un Buste de la Collection M. de Camondo; La Négresse de Houdon," Gazette des Beaux-Arts
 

Stored in Box 9 - Oversize Material.

 1931 Nov.
6 4

Sculpture by Houdon, Paintings and Drawings by David
 

The Century Association, February 19 - April 10, 1947.

 1947
6 5

Sculpture by Houdon: A Loan Exhibition
 

Worcester Art Museum, January 16 - February 23, 1964

 1964

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Series VIII: Research of Isobel Binks, 1939-1949
 

Works of Houdon arranged alphabetically by subject; all else arranged chronologically.

Correspondence, invoices, reference materials, notes and photographs documenting the Houdon research of Frick Art Reference Library staff reference worker Isobel Binks. The papers are organized under four headings: Correspondence, Works of Houdon, Related Works/Artists and Miscellaneous Research Notes. Correspondence pertains to Ms. Binks' stay in Paris, June-September, 1938 and includes letters from André Girodie. Works of Houdon contains research on individual works by the sculptor. Binks' notes and letters to Helen Clay Frick and other Library staff members are filed under Series II: Correspondence/Memos.
Box Folder Date

Correspondence
 
Box Folder Date
6 6

Correspondence
 

 1938
6 7

Travel Arrangements and Invoices (Paris)
 

 1938

Works of Houdon (by subject)
 
Box Folder Date
6 8

Alexander the Great
 

 undated
6 9

Anspach, Margravine d'
 

Note on original folder: Lady Craven; FARL 41981-84. SEE ALSO: Lantern slides stored in Box 10.

 1938, 1947, undated
6 10

Arnould, Sophie
 

SEE ALSO: Lantern slides stored in Box 10.

 1949
6 11

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
 

 undated
6 12

Boissy d'Anglas, Comte de
 

 1938
6 13

Boufflers, Marquis Stanislas
 

Note on folder: [Russian colls? Paris-Doucet and Biblio - Ref.]

 1938
6 14

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
 

Note on original folder: 1) Souffrice; 2) Souffrice's; 3) Strauss.

 1938

Charpentier. SEE Tomb of Victor Charpentier, Comte d'Ennery.
 
6 15

Child
 

Note on original folder: Ex-Greffulhe collection.

 1938
6 16

Child
 

Note on original folder: Souffrice.

 1938
6 17

Dead Thrush
 

Note on original folder: Paris-Doucet; Bedford; Has Miss Frick's Sales Cat?

 undated
6 18

Diana
 

 undated
6 19

Duthé, Mlle.
 

 undated
6 20

Ecorche (The Flayed Man)
 

 1949
6 21

Franklin, Benjamin
 

 undated
6 22

Fulton, Robert
 

 undated
6 23

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
 

 undated
6 24

Henry, Prince of Prussia
 

 1938
6 25

Houdon, Ann Ange
 

 undated
6 26

Houdon, Madame
 

 1947
6 27

Houdon, Sabine
 

 undated
6 28

Jones, John Paul
 

 1948
6 29

Josephine, Empress
 

 undated
6 30

Laborde, Benjamin de
 

 1938
6 31

Lepeletier, Louis
 

 undated
6 32

Luzy, Mlle. de
 

Note on original folder: Paris - Comedie Francaise actress; not important.

 undated
6 33

Marshall, John
 

 1934
6 34

Mayer (or De Mayer)
 

Note on original folder: Can this be H. Meyer the engraver. Engraved portrait of Margravine of Anspach.

 1947
6 35

Mirabeau, Comte de
 

 1938
6 36

Montgolfier, Joseph & Étienne
 

Correspondence with Montgolfiers.

 1938
6 37

Necker, Jacques
 

 1947-1949
6 38

Ney, Marshal
 

Note on original folder: d'Elchingen.

 1938
6 39

Olivier, Mlle.
 

 undated
6 40

Pastoret, Marquis de
 

 undated
6 41

Petit, Madame
 

 undated
6 42

Provence, Comte de, later Louis XVIII
 

 1939
6 43

Raucourt, Mlle. F.A.M. de
 

Note on original folder: FARL 41986-88.

 undated
6 44

Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély
 

 undated
6 45

Robert, Mlle., daughter of Hubert Robert
 

 undated
6 46

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 

 1938, 1947
6 47

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 

Note on original folder: Cailleux.

 1938
6 48

Sabran, Comtesse de
 

 1938, 1947, undated
6 49

Saint Bruno
 

Note on original folder: Dijon.

 1938
6 50

Saint Gudin
 

 1948
6 51

Saints on facade of Orleans cathedral
 

Note on original folder: Georges Martin, Rue Royale, repros, French school, anon.

 1938-1939
6 52

Servat, Marie Adélaïde
 

 undated
6 53

Suffren, Bailli de
 

Note on original folder: Behague; Ricard.

 1938
6 54

Suffren, Bailli de
 

Note on original folder: Destroyed in bombing of Rotterdam.

 undated
6 55

Themis
 

 1938
6 56

Tomb of Victor Charpentier, Comte d'Ennery
 

 1938
6 57

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne
 

Note on original folder: Souffrice.

 1938
6 58

Unknown Man
 

 undated
6 59

Victoire, Madame
 

 1938
6 60

Voltaire
 

Note on original folder: Astor Collection.

 1947
6 61

Voltaire
 

Note on original folder: Guyard.

 1938
6 62

Voltaire
 

Note on original folder: Plaster Bronzed.

 undated
6 63

Vos, Cornelius de, the Elder
 

 1948
6 64

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: Craven Collection. Sold Percy A. Rockefeller, Parke-Bernet, Nov. 28, 1947.

 1947
6 65

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: at P. Jackson Higgs.

 undated
7 1

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: Mount Vernon.

 1948
7 2

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: Richmond.

 undated
7 3

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: Souffrice.

 1938
7 4

Washington, George
 

Note on original folder: Versailles?

 undated
7 5

Washington, George - Mask
 

 1947

Related Works/Artists
 
Box Folder Date
7 6

Works after Houdon (artist not identified) - Washington, George
 

 undated
7 7

Artists - Pajou, Augustin
 

 undated
7 8-11

Research Notes, Miscellaneous [4 folders]
 

 circa 1930s-1940s

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Series IX: Research of Clotilde Brière, 1933-1938
 

Works of Houdon arranged alphabetically by subject; all else chronological. Primarily in French.

Correspondence, reference materials and notes documenting the Houdon research of Paris-based Library staff member Clotilde Brière. Of note is Brière's correspondence with Jean Perron Houdon regarding the acquisition of Houdon's papers for Helen Clay Frick; a list of the documents purchased and their prices is included. Works of Houdon contains handwritten notes detailing the provenance and description of possible Houdon works. Subject titles often include multiple works.
Box Folder Date
7 12

Acquisition of Houdon's papers for Helen Clay Frick
 

 1933-1937
7 13

Correspondence
 

 1935-1938

Works of Houdon (by subject)
 
Box Folder Date
7 14

Actor
 

 undated
7 15

Adelaide, Madame
 

 undated
7 16

Apollo
 

 undated
7 17

Arnould, Sophie
 

 undated
7 18

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
 

 undated
7 19

Le Baiser donné/Le Baiser rendu
 

 undated
7 20

Barlow, Joel
 

 undated
7 21

Barnave, Joseph
 

 undated
7 22

Barthélemy, Abbé Jean-Jacques
 

 undated
7 23

Bather(Baigneuse)
 

 undated
7 24

Belisarius/Old Man
 

 undated
7 25

Bervick, Madame de
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
7 26

Biré, Charles Francois Fontaine, Marquis de
 

 undated
7 27

Boissy d'Anglas, Comte de
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
7 28

Bordas-Pardoux
 

 undated
7 29

Boy, Head of
 

 undated
7 30

Brongniart, Louise
 

 undated
7 31

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
 

 undated
7 32

Cabanais
 

 undated
7 33

Cagliostro, Conte Alessandro
 

 undated
7 34

Camus-Gréné
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
7 35

Caumartin, Antoine-Louis-Francois LeFevré de
 

 undated
7 36

Chènier, Joseph
 

 undated
7 37

Chevreuse, Duchesse de
 

 undated
7 38

Child, Bust of
 

 undated
7 39

Choiseul-Praslin, César-Gabriel, Duc de
 

 undated
8 1

Collin d'Harleville, Jean-Francois
 

 undated
8 2

Condorcet, Marquis de
 

 undated
8 3

Conty, Prince de Bourbon
 

Note on original folder: Remarks: Not Houdon.

 undated
8 4

Créqui, Marquise de
 

 undated
8 5

D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond
 

Note on original folder: Location of both unknown; we have photo of a third.

 undated
8 6

Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie
 

 undated
8 7

Dead birds
 

 undated
8 8

Dead Thrush
 

 undated
8 9

(Le) Dernier Chagrin de l'Innocence
 

 undated
8 10

Diana
 

 undated
8 11

Diderot, Denis
 

 undated
8 12

Drawings - Crayon
 

 undated
8 13

Drawings - Profiles
 

 undated
8 14

Du Cayla, Comtesse
 

 undated
8 15

Du Paty, Jean-Baptiste Mercier
 

 undated
8 16

Dumouriez, Charles-Francois
 

 undated
8 17

Duquesnoy, Madame
 

 undated
8 18

Duthé, Mlle.
 

 undated
8 19

L'Ecorche (The Flayed Man)
 

 undated
8 20

Eté (Summer)
 

 undated
8 21

Farente
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
8 22

Fontaine, Jean de la
 

 undated
8 23

Franklin, Benjamin
 

 undated
8 24

(La) Frileuse (Winter)
 

 undated
8 25

Fulton, Robert
 

 undated
8 26

Gerbier de la Masselaye, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste
 

 undated
8 27

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
 

 undated
8 28

Grandménil, Madame de
 

Note on original folder: Madame de Grandménil looks much more like Chinard's. M. de Grandménil has not been seen.

 undated
8 29

Guibert, Comte de, Jacques Antoine Hippolite
 

 undated
8 30

Gustave III
 

Note on original folder: Try Sergel.

 undated
8 31

Heads from the antiques
 

 undated
8 32

Henry, Prince of Prussia
 

 undated
8 33

Houdon, Anne Ange
 

 undated
8 34

Houdon, Claudine
 

 undated
8 35

Houdon, Jean Antoine
 

 undated
8 36

Houdon, Jean Antoine - Drawings
 

 undated
8 37

Houdon, Madame and Sabine, in profile - Medallion
 

 undated
8 38

Jaucourt, Comtesse de
 

 undated
8 39

Lafayette, Marquis de
 

 undated
8 40

Louis XIV
 

 undated

(A) Magistrate. SEE: (Le) Pelletier.
 
8 41

Man, Bust of
 

 undated
8 42

Man, Bust of (in Cimare)
 

 undated
8 43

Man, Drawings of
 

 undated
8 44

Minerva
 

 undated
8 45

Moitte
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
8 46

Moliére
 

Note on original folder: Full of problems!

 undated
8 47

Montenoy, Charles Palissot de
 

 undated
8 48

Montesquiou, La Marquise de
 

Note on original folder: Remarks: Not Houdon.

 undated
8 49

Montgolfier, J.M.
 

 undated
8 50

Morpheus
 

 undated
8 51

Murinay, Marquise de (?)
 

 undated
8 52

Mythological scene - Drawing
 

 undated
8 53

Naiad
 

 undated
8 54

Napolean I
 

 undated
8 55

Necker, Jacques
 

 undated
8 56

Ney, Marshal
 

 undated
8 57

Nicolay, Aymard-Jean de
 

 undated
8 58

Nivernais, Louis-Jules Mancini, Duc de
 

 undated
8 59

Nude Man Seated - Drawing
 

Note on original folder: Can this be the Voltaire of Pigalle?

 undated
8 60

Nymph
 

 undated
8 61

Paesiello
 

Note on original folder: Remarks: Not Houdon.

 undated
8 62

(Le) Pelletier
 

Note on original folder: Now known as "A Magistrate" and identified as "Lavaïsse." Location unknown, no photo of the one described in folder.

 undated
8 63

La petite Lise
 

 undated
8 64

Pleur et Rire
 

 undated
8 65

Priest of Lupercalia
 

 undated
8 66

Raucourt, Mlle.
 

Note on original folder: Where?

 undated
8 67

Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
8 68

Robespierre
 

Note on original folder: Remarks: Not Houdon

 undated
8 69

Rodde-Schlözer, Dorothea von
 

 undated
8 70

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 

SEE ALSO: Voltaire and Rousseau.

 undated
8 71

Rozier, Jean-Francois Pilâtre de
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown, no photo.

 undated
8 72

Sabran, Comtesse de
 

 undated
8 73

Saint Bruno
 

 undated
8 74

Salm-Dyck, Princess
 

Note on original folder: Arnold Seligman's 1937.

 undated
8 75

Sérilly, Madame de
 

 undated
8 76

Servat, Marie Adélaïde
 

 undated
8 77

Sheba, Queen of
 

 undated
8 78

Sibyll
 

 undated
8 79

Soult, Maréchal, Duke of Dalmatia
 

 undated
8 80

Spaniel
 

 undated
8 81

Suffren, Bailli de (Pierre-André de Suffren)
 

 undated
8 82

Tourville, Maréchal de
 

Note on original folder: May be the one at Livres?

 undated
8 83

Tronchin, Théodore
 

 undated
8 84

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne
 

 undated
8 85

Unknown Girl
 

 undated
8 86

Valbelle, Comte de
 

 undated
8 87

Venus
 

 undated
8 88

Venus and Mars
 

 undated
8 89

Vermenon, Mme. de
 

Note on original folder: Location unknown; no photo.

 undated
8 90

Vestal
 

 undated
8 91

Victoire, Madame
 

 undated
8 92

Voltaire
 

Note on original folder: Rosset Dupont?

 undated
8 93

Voltaire and Rousseau
 

 undated
8 94

Washington, George
 

 undated
8 95

Woman with Drapery, Bust of
 

 undated
8 96

Women
 

 undated
8 97

Young Girl, Bust of
 

 undated
8 98

Young Greeks
 

 undated
8 99

Young Man, Bust of
 

 undated

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