Live Auction 8722The Brian Juhos Collection From a Domaine in Southern France
A PAINTED PLASTER BUST OF THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN, THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
Lot 212

A PAINTED PLASTER BUST OF THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN, THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON

Closed1 May 2013

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GBP 812

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A PAINTED PLASTER BUST OF THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN, THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON
Painted to resemble terracotta, a Louvre museum reproduction seal to the reverse, probably later painted
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

Houdon's executed the original sculpture in marble for the Philadelphia Philosophical Society circa 1785, the original is now in the collection of the Louvre, Paris.