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Lot Essay
Raon, after his early education in Rome, returned to France and worked for King Louis XIV, under the direction of the Bâtiments du Roi, for the rest of his life. He provided an important group of sculpture to the Château de Versailles which were primarily large-scale architectural pieces and garden sculpture.
For some similar examples see F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries: The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, 1987, p. 224 no. 46 and the Supplementary Volume, pp. 181-184, nos. 47-54. Another closely-related Raon bust, a richly-carved Bust of a Faun, and, also, like all those cited in Souchal, on a rounded term-like base was sold Sotheby’s, London, 5 December, 2012, lot 93.
For some similar examples see F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries: The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, 1987, p. 224 no. 46 and the Supplementary Volume, pp. 181-184, nos. 47-54. Another closely-related Raon bust, a richly-carved Bust of a Faun, and, also, like all those cited in Souchal, on a rounded term-like base was sold Sotheby’s, London, 5 December, 2012, lot 93.
