Bust of a Man

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1775

Attributed to Jean Jacques Caffieri (French, 1725–1792)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Jacques Caffieri
Title: Bust of a Man
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.: 1770–1780
Medium: Plaster
Dimensions: 64.5 × 43.8 × 33 cm (25 × 17 1/4 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Simeon B. Williams Fund
Reference Number: 1943.1226
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The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 56,1 (1962), p. 15, ill.

Chicago, 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, cat. 135.

Marquis de Talleyrand, Rome [according to registrar’s cards and copies of incoming receipts; 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.

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