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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Three-quarters length portrait of Maurice Block (Curator of Art, 1928-1948) examining bronzes on a table in the loggia. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 11 Maurice Block, Curator of Art Collections. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938. Appeared in Westways, March 1938.
photCL 107 vol13 pg2 (11)
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Sir Thomas Lawrence's Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie" (1794) hanging on a wall in the portrait gallery in the Huntington residence. The bronze sculpture is Renommée (Fame) by an unknown foundry, after Antoine Coysevox, made between 1700 and 1710. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 24 View of "Pinkie" by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Georgian table with bronze reduction of original stone statue of Coysevox' "Fame," which stands at entrance to Tuilleries in Paris. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938.
photCL 107 vol13 (24)
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Attendant is seated at a work bench in front of a display case. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 14 Attendant cleaning Chelsea porcelain. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938.
photCL 107 vol13 (14)
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Attendant is kneeling on marble floor in front of the fireplace at the east end of the Huntington residence library. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 12 Attendant polishing andirons, fireplace in Library room of Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938.
photCL 107 vol13 (12)
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Attendant is standing on a rolling ladder in front of tall bookcases dusting the tapestry "La Jouese de Flûte (The Flutist)." Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 13 Attendant dusting Beauvais tapestry, "The Flute Player" from stepladder. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938.
photCL 107 vol13 (13)
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This chair is one of a set of ten armchairs and two settees. The back piece is entitled Sculpture personified as a child, the seat is entitled A hound attacking a boar. These woven upholstery covers were made at the Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 20 Armchair covered with Gobelins tapestry, XVIII c. Back design by Boucher; seat, by Oudry." Appeared in Westways, March 1938.
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