A TERRACOTTA BUST OF JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU

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.