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Description: | Artist: Rosset, Jean-Fran?ois-Joseph, sculptor - French sculptor, 1706-1786; Date(s): 1773; Classification(s): sculpture, bust, carving, alabaster, carved; Acquisition: bought by Daniel Katz Ltd., 1981, Purchased with the Gow Fund and with a 50% Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum [M.1-1981]
Description: Alabaster bust, on alabaster socle attached to the bust by a central screw. The sitter is represented with his head turned slightly to his right. He wears a tie wig with long flowing curls, a cravat, armour, and a cloak which is draped across the lower part of the bust at the front. There is a sash over his right shoulder, and round his neck is a ribbon from which is suspended the Insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The bust ends just above the elbows and slopes downwards to a little above the waist at the centre front. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture bust Rosset, Jean-Fran?ois-Joseph | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1773; end=1773 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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