Live Auction 2838The Decorative Arts Sale incl. Fine Paintings
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

Closed1 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

Specialist note

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.