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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU
Lot 398

A TERRACOTTA BUST OF JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU

AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI (1725-1792), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Fermé1 July 2010

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EUR 3,250

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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU
AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI (1725-1792), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Signed on the reverse of the left shoulder Caffieri, and with indistinct inscription, on a waisted circular socle
64 cm. high

Note du spécialiste

The original marble of this bust was executed by Caffieri for the Salon of 1787 and given in 1786 to the Comédie-Française, apparently as part of a complicated debt settlement. The bust was modelled after a painting of Rousseau by Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot Aved (1702-1766), executed in 1738 (S. Lami, loc. cit). A version in terracotta is in Versailles (no. MV 8142).
A virtual identical bust was sold, Karl Lagerfeld Collection, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 2000, lot 130.