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Lot Essay
Pierre Puget was one of the few major French sculptors of the reign of Louis XIV whose career was not dominated by courtly society in Paris and Versailles. Born in Marseilles, he divided his time between Italy and the cities of the south and south west of France, with only two brief sojourns in the capital.
The present pair of busts display a robustness of carving which is entirely characteristic of Puget's work. The facial types, with their furrowed brows and squat proportions are also directly comparable with the faces executed by Puget in his monumental marble relief of Alexander and Diogenes, now in the Louvre (Souchal, loc. cit.).
The present pair of busts display a robustness of carving which is entirely characteristic of Puget's work. The facial types, with their furrowed brows and squat proportions are also directly comparable with the faces executed by Puget in his monumental marble relief of Alexander and Diogenes, now in the Louvre (Souchal, loc. cit.).