About This Artwork
Jean Jacques Caffieri (Attributed to)
French, 1725-1792
Bust of a Manc. 1775
Plaster
25 x 17 1/4 x 13 in. (64.5 x 43.8 x 33 cm)
Simeon B. Williams Fund, 1943.1226
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago," 24 January – 28 March 1976, no. 135.
Publication History
Jules Guiffrey, Les Caffieri: Sculpteurs et Fondeurs-Ciseleurs (Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1877), PP. 229-239, 315-317, 495.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, French Art of the Eighteenth Century (1914), no. 95.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 56, 1 (March 1962), p. 15 (ill.).
Barbara Scott, "The Collection of the Comedie Francaise," Apollo 86, 6 (August 1967), p 113, fig. 3, p. 115.
Christie’s, European Sculpture (15 December 1998), p. 18, no. 15.
Ownership History
Marquis de Talleyrand, Rome [according to registrar’s cards and copies of incoming receipts in curatorial file; see also Chicago exh. cat.]. Marquis de Biron, Geneva [according to sources cited above]. Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, by 1943; sold to the Art Institute, 1943.