LOT DETAILS

Materials:

marble

Size Notes:

44.1 cm high (overall)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Houdon, F. 1775' to the reverse

Exhibited:

Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Sculpture by Houdon: A Loan Exhibition, 16 January-23 February, 1964.

Literature:

L. Réau, Houdon, Paris, 1964, I, pp. 100, 115, 119. H.H. Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, London, 1975, pl. 13, fig. 64. A.L. Poulet, ed., Jean-Antoine Houdon, Sculptor or the Enlightenment, exhibition catalogue, Washington, Los Angeles and Versailles, 2003, p. 31. M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, pp. 204-205, no. 111.

Provenance:

Private collection, East Providence, Rhode Island. (Possibly) Anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 8-9 January 1959.