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PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (LOT 405)
A TERRACOTTA BUST OF CLAUDE-ADRIEN HELVETIUS
AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF CLAUDE-ADRIEN HELVETIUS
AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The back inscribed C.A. HELVETIUS/Ne a Paris Le en janvier 1715 mort/a Paris Le 26 Decembre 1771/fait par. J.J. Caffiere en 1772, on a marble socle, red museum accession numbers
24½ in. (62 cm.) high
AFTER JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The back inscribed C.A. HELVETIUS/Ne a Paris Le en janvier 1715 mort/a Paris Le 26 Decembre 1771/fait par. J.J. Caffiere en 1772, on a marble socle, red museum accession numbers
24½ in. (62 cm.) high
Literature
F. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Connecticut, 1973, vol. 5, pp. 392-297, vol. 49.
J. Draper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pp. 248.
O. Raggio, Patterns of Collecting, Selected Acquisions, 1965-1975, Explanatory Texts, New York, 1975.
M. Levey, Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789, 1993, pp. 151-2, fig. 151.
J. Draper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pp. 248.
O. Raggio, Patterns of Collecting, Selected Acquisions, 1965-1975, Explanatory Texts, New York, 1975.
M. Levey, Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789, 1993, pp. 151-2, fig. 151.
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