About This Artwork

Jean-Pierre Dantan
French, 1800-1869

Portrait Bust of Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange, 1847

Terracotta
19.7 x 12.1 x 10.5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Signed and dated 1847
European Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, 1995.187

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

For comparison, see:

Musée Carnavalet, Dantan Jeune: Caricatures et portraits de la sociéte romantique. Collections du Musée Carnavalet (Paris: Musées, 1989), pp. 156, 186, no. 40.

Ownership History

Daniel Katz, Ltd., London, by 1995; sold to the Art Institute, 1995.