Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra

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Lot 625
  • 625

A small French bust of Napoleon as a young man 19th century, signed Corbet

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • height overall 9 1/4 in.
  • 23.5 cm
on Sienna marble base, signed CORBET AN VII. 

Provenance

Mallett at Bourdon House, London
Acquired from the above, 1985

Catalogue Note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Simon Hoog, ed., Les Sculptures, Musée National du Château de Versailles, Paris, 1993, p. 283.

The present sculpture relates to a larger plaster bust of the same subject at Versailles by Charles-Louis Corbet and signed Fait par C.L. Corbet en L'an VIII.