AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI (1725-1792), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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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

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Lami, Dictionaire des Sculpteurs de l'école Française au Dix-Huitième Siècle, Paris, 1910, pp. 160-161.
S. Hoog, Museé National du Château de Versailles, Les Sculptures, I - Le Museé, Paris, 1993, nos. 1523 and 1524, p. 327.

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Lot Essay

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.

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