AFTER JACQUES BOUSSEAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Bousseau, (1680-1740). A pupil of Nicolas Coustou. The painter Nicolas Lancret reproduced the statue in his work (now lost)"Le Persan ou l'Eloge d'une statue en marble".

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, 1968.