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A PLASTER PORTRAIT BUST OF THE SURGEON AND PHYSIOLOGIST ANTOINE LOUIS (1723-1792)

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI (1678-1755), FRENCH, 18TH CENTURY

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A PLASTER PORTRAIT BUST OF THE SURGEON AND PHYSIOLOGIST ANTOINE LOUIS (1723-1792)
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-JACQUES CAFFIERI (1678-1755), FRENCH, 18TH CENTURY
The reverse inscribed J.J. CAFFIERI/INVENIT ET/SCULPSIT/ANNO/M.DCC XLVIII
22 ¾ in. (60.5 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Crédit Municipal de Paris, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, March 21, 1996, lot 85.

Literature

C. Navarra-Le Bihan, ‘L'inventaire après décès du sculpteur Jean-Jacques Caffieri’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2001, 119, no. 16.

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