POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY

Lot 473
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 30 000
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Lot 473 | POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY

A BUST OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

with applied red wax seal on the reverse and inscribed 'Houdon f 178…' along left edge

tinted plaster

23 ½ in. (59.7 cm.) high





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 December 1927, lot 229.

Professeur Gosset, Paris.

(Possibly) National Academy of Design, New York.

Anonymous sale; Schrager Auction Galleries, Milwaukee, 23-28 October 1994, lot 1176.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

G. Giacometti, La vie et l’œuvre de Houdon, Paris, 1929, pp. 179-181.

L. Réau, Houdon, sa vie et son œuvre, vols. 3-4, Paris, 1964, p. 46, no. 204⁄2.



Exhibited

Paris, Galeries Buvelot, Exposition du centenaire de Houdon, 5 June-5 July 1928, no. 75, pp. 76-78.
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