Jean Antoine Houdon, copy after - A TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT BUST OF GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON - image-1

Lot 1451 Rα

Jean Antoine Houdon, copy after - A TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT BUST OF GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON

Auction 1020 - overview Cologne
16.11.2013, 00:00 - Ols Masters incl. The Rau Collection for UNICEF
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 9.150 € (incl. premium)
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Jean Antoine Houdon, copy after

A TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT BUST OF GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON

Terracotta bust, France 19th C. (after J. A. Houdon) (GR 2.373)
Minimal wear. Height 56 cm (with plinth).

A terracotta portrait bust of Georges-Louis Leclerk, Compte de Buffon. Worked in the round, with an original polychrome clay plinth. A portrait bust of the French scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Gardens in Paris. This terracotta is based on a bust by Jean Antoine Houdon and is inscribed "Houdon f" to the left outer edge, and was probably made in France in the 19th century.

Provenance

Auction Sotheby´s, London, 8.12.1994, lot 118.
The Rau Collection for UNICEF

Literature

For this bust and the original piece by Jean Antoine Houdons, see: H. H. Arnason: The Sculptures of Houdon, London 1975, illus. 46 & pl. 73.