Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine

1839

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot (French, 1794–1862)

Status: On View, Ryerson Library Reading Room
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot
Title: Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1839
Medium: Painted plaster
Inscriptions: Inscribed: P. Fontaine (front of base); Petitot 1839 (lower left of right side of base); Charles Micheli / 29 rue Guenegaud (engraved on metal plaque embedded center back of base)
Dimensions: 36.5 × 29.2 cm (14 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Barrington Associates in memory of Jennie and William Wolffs and S. Lee Wolffs and Franklin H. Pecaro; Ryerson and Burnham Libraries funds
Reference Number: 1988.275
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Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 4, reprint (Liechtenstein, 1970), p. 80.
Paris, Academie d’Architecture, Catalogue des collections: 1750–1900 1 (Paris: Academie d’Architecture, 1987), p. 346, no. 715.

New York, Shepherd Gallery, “French Nineteenth-Century Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings and Sculpture,” Spring 1988, cat. 56A.

Galerie Martel Greiner, Paris, before 1988 [according to Robert Kashey, Director, Shepherd Gallery, telephone conversation, March 4, 2003, notes in curatorial file]; sold to Robert Kashey, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1988; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.

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