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The Warburg Ceiling
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Probably commissioned for a house at no. 3 rue Jeannin (previously rue du Faucon) Dijon France probably owned by the Desbarres family around 1540; the house by descent to Marguerite le Blond widow of Nicholas Desbarres 1611; to her daughter Marguerite de Gissey; sold; to Jean-François Joly (d.1767) 1742 by descent; to his nephew and niece Bernard and Marguerite Rosand 1767 sold; to François Rathelot 1775 sold; to Charles Enguerrand (d. 1817) 1778 by descent; to his daughter Espérance Tarnier and her husband J.-B. Tarnier by descent; to their sons Jean-Frédéric and Antoine-Marie-Octave Tarnier sold; to François Calais (d. 1875) 1855 by descent; to his daughter Stéphanie-Marie-Augustine Chavin sold; to Philibert Berthaux and François Bottard 1888; beams removed from the building at no. 3 rue Jeannin supposedly sold [1]; to [Monsieur Berthaux (Berthaut) Dijon c. 1922] [2] sold; to George Grey Barnard New York 1923; sold to Fogg Art Museum 1926
Notes
[1] The chain of descent is recorded by Auguste Gasser in “Le plafond sculpté de la maison no. 3 rue Jeannin ” in "Académie des sciences arts et belles-lettres de Dijon Mémories de la commission des antiquités de la Côte-d’Or " pp. 33-60 March 1923
[2] There is some conflicting documentation surrounding Barnard’s acquisition of the beams. “A Carved Ceiling of the Burgundian School ” The Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum November 1934 indicates that the ceiling was purchased about 1919 by Barnard. However archival research from both the Harvard Art Museums Archives and the files at Musées de Dijon indicates that it was likely Monsieur Berthaux (Berthaut) that sold the beams to George Grey Barnard in 1922.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Dijon Ceiling and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
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