Lot 87: A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE BOUDARD (1710 – 1768), CIRCA 1765 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) high

(54 cm.) high

CIRCA 1765

New York, An Exhibition of European Works of Art at Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd., Trinity Fine Art and Carlo Orsi, 17 – 25 April 2002. cat. no. 32.

Trinity Fine Art, 2002.

Jean Baptiste Boudard was born in Paris but, having won the Prix de Rome in 1732, spent much of his career in Rome and Parma. The present bust is comparable to two known marble busts by Boudard of Duke Philip of Bourbon-Parma in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Galleria Nazionale di Parma, in the treatment of the hair and curls, and in the engaged movement of the sitter's head.