A terracotta bust of Alexandre Brongniart - image-1

Lot 1015 Dα

A terracotta bust of Alexandre Brongniart

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A terracotta bust of Alexandre Brongniart

Polychrome terracotta bust on a round base. H with base 44.8 cm.
After Jean-Antoine Houdon, late 19th / early 20th C.

Literature

The Louvre in Paris houses both the original terracotta version of this statue as well as the version in marble (inv. nos. RF1197 and RF1280), both from the estate of the Brongniart family. The work depicts Alexandre Brongniart (1770 - 1847), the son of the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (1739-1813), who was later to become a mineralogist and director of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory. Houdon created both works in 1777.