AFTER FELIX LECOMTE (1737-1817), LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE
AFTER FELIX LECOMTE (1737-1817), LATE 19TH CENTURY
On a variegated red marble socle
32 in. (81.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This celebrated portrait bust of Marie-Antoinette, wearing a bas-relief medallion of Louis XVI, was popularised in the nineteenth century by the version executed in the 1840s for Versaille's Galeries Historiques established by Louis-Philippe (d. 1848) and copied from the original exhibited at the 1783 Salon by the sculptor Felix Lecomte, a pupil of Falconnet.

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