ID 1122208
Lot 473 | POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 19TH CENTURY
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
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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