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ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Details
A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A LADY, POSSIBLY CLAIRE-JOSÉPHE LÉRIS (1723-1803)
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Standing on a breccia marble socle bearing a paper label 1234/450
19 ¼ in. (49 cm.) high, overall
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Standing on a breccia marble socle bearing a paper label 1234/450
19 ¼ in. (49 cm.) high, overall
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle, 1910, vol. 1, p. 255.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle, 1910, vol. 1, p. 255.
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