Live Auction 5714Christie's Interiors
A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
Lot 145

A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed25 May 2010

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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

This celebrated portrait bust of Marie-Antoinette was popularised in the l9th century by the version executed in the 1840s for Versaille's Galeries Historiques established by Louis-Philippe (d.1848) and copied from the original exhibited at the 1783 Salon by the sculptor Felix Lecomte (d.1817).