Property from a British Private Collection
Jean Claude François Joseph Rosset
Pair of busts of the Baron de Montesquieu and his wife, Jeanne Lartique
Lot Closed
July 2, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Attributed to Jean Claude François Joseph Rosset
Saint Claude, Jura 1706 - 1786
Pair of busts of the Baron de Montesquieu and his wife, Jeanne Lartique
marble
26cm., 10¼in. and 24.5cm., 9 5/8 in.
Museum of San Antonio, Texas;
The British Rail Pension Fund;
Its sale, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1996, lot 84;
Where acquired by the present owner
Dole, Musée des beaux-arts, Les Rosset: un atelier jurassien au temps des Lumières, 2001-2002
G. Barbier, B. Gaulard and M.-L. Pierre, Les Rosset: un atelier jurassien au temps des Lumières, exh. cat. Musée des beaux-arts, Dole, 2001, p. 51, nos. 18 and 19
Jean Claude François Joseph Rosset (1706-1786), known as Rosset Père, was the most renowned member of a family of sculptors from St Claude in the region of Jura. Together with his son Claude-Antoine Rosset (1745-1818), known as Rosset Fils, they worked in alabaster, marble and ivory and occasionally in wood, specialising in portrait busts, most notably of Voltaire. He exhibited in the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779.
Charles Louis de Montesquieu (1689-1755) is remembered as one of the foremost philosophers and men of letters of the 18th century, most notably for his greatest work, Esprit des Lois published in 1748.
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