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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF IPHIGENIA
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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF IPHIGENIA

19TH CENTURY, AFTER LOUIS-SIMON BOIZOT

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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF IPHIGENIA
19TH CENTURY, AFTER LOUIS-SIMON BOIZOT
Depicted looking slightly downwards, wearing classical drapery, her veiled head crowned by a fruiting laurel wreath, on a circular grey-veined white marble socle, restorations
22 in. (56 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) high, overall
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Lot Essay

This bust of a High Priestess is after the model by Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809). Examples exist in a number of different media; a Sèvres bisque porcelain reduction is in the musée du Louvre, and is illustrated in J. Durand, The Louvre Objets d'Art, London, 1995, p.106.

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