BY G. CANART, 1738

A companion or pendant bust, with the same signature and date, is recorded in the Conway Library, Courtauld Institute as formerly in the collection of the late Ian Dawson Grant, architect and interior designer (1925-1998). That bust records the features of the somewhat similar Zingara in the Villa Borghese, which has a less elaborate headdress. The present bust is a reproduction of just the head of the full-length marble and bronze statue at Versailles which Linfert accepted as a Greek work contemporary with Lysippus. It was very much admired in the 17th and 18th centuries when the head was often reproduced. Examples in England can be found at Stourhead, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the V & A Museum. Scheemakers and Cheere also made plaster casts.