A FRENCH TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY NICOLAS JOSPEH LAURENT GILBERT (1750-1780)
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A FRENCH TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY NICOLAS JOSPEH LAURENT GILBERT (1750-1780)

AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY NICOLAS JOSPEH LAURENT GILBERT (1750-1780)
AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY
In coat and ruffled shirt, set on a waisted socle; together with a scagliola pedestal simulating breche marble on a square base, 19th Century
Bust: 26 in. (66 cm.) high; pedestal 42 in. (149 cm.) high

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