A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF MADAME DE FONDVILLE, cast from a model by Jean Baptiste Defernex, the sitter looking slightly to sinister, her hair dressed with flowers, pulled loosely back and falling in curls to her shoulders, signed and dated J.B. Defernex. 1760 (on grey marble socle), circa 1760

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A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF MADAME DE FONDVILLE, cast from a model by Jean Baptiste Defernex, the sitter looking slightly to sinister, her hair dressed with flowers, pulled loosely back and falling in curls to her shoulders, signed and dated J.B. Defernex. 1760 (on grey marble socle), circa 1760
15¼in. (38.7cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Le Mans, Musées de Tessé, Catalogue du Musée des Arts, Le Mans, 1932, p. 97, ill. 575
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, III, Paris, 1976, pp. 426-427

Exhibited

London, Heim Gallery, French Paintings and Sculptures of the 18th Century, Jan - March 1968, no. 58

Lot Essay

The present bronze is cast after the terracotta original, now in the Museum at Mans, which is dated 1759. A plaster cast, also dated 1759, is in a private collection in Brussels. The terracotta was exhibited at the Petit Palais in 1900 (cf. Le Mans, Cat.).

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