AIMÉ-JULES DALOU | Buste d'enfant (Bust of a Child)

Overall the condition of the marble is very good with minor dirt and wear to the surface consistent with age. There is dirt to the surface and the marble would benefit from professional cleaning. There is a chip to the bottom edge of the proper left shoulder and very minor abrasions to the bottom edges elsewhere.
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Another marble version of the present model is in the Petit Palais, Paris (inv. no. PPS00288). RELATED LITERATURE
A. Simier, Jules Dalou: Le sculpteur de la République, exh. cat. Petit Palais - Musées des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2013, p. 363, no. 293