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BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), 1773
Details
A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A LADY, POSSIBLY PRINCESSE DE BÉTHUNE-SULLY (1729-1783)
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), 1773
Signed J.B. Defernex fecit. 1773, on a cream and red marble circular socle
12 ½ in. (31.6 cm.) high, overall
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DEFERNEX (1729-1783), 1773
Signed J.B. Defernex fecit. 1773, on a cream and red marble circular socle
12 ½ in. (31.6 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie de Bayser, Paris, 1980.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle, T. 1, 1910, p. 255.
J-L. Champion ed., Mille Sculptures des Musées de France, Paris, 1998, no. 472, pp. 228-229.
J-R. Gaborit ed., Musée du Louvre, Sculpture Française, II Renaissance et Temps Modernes, I, no. RF 1518, p. 328.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle, T. 1, 1910, p. 255.
J-L. Champion ed., Mille Sculptures des Musées de France, Paris, 1998, no. 472, pp. 228-229.
J-R. Gaborit ed., Musée du Louvre, Sculpture Française, II Renaissance et Temps Modernes, I, no. RF 1518, p. 328.
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