Lot 227
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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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Lot Essay

This celebrated portrait bust of Marie-Antoinette, wearing a bas-relief medallion of Louis XVI, was popularised in the l9th century by the version executed in the 1840s for Versaille's Galeries Historiques established by Louis-Philippe (d.1848) and copied from the original exhibited at the 1783 Salon by the sculptor Felix Lecomte (d.1817), a pupil of Falconnet.

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