Louis-Claude Vassé
Bust of Constance-Félicité-Victoire-Désirée Vassé, daughter of the artist
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June 10, 02:51 PM GMT
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12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Louis-Claude Vassé
Paris 1716 - 1772
Bust of Constance-Félicité-Victoire-Désirée Vassé, daughter of the artist
white marble, on a verde antico marble socle and a square white marble base
the base inscribed: vassé 1763
bust: 30.5cm., 12in.
42.5cm., 16¾in. overall
Prince Joachim Murat (1767-1815);
Thence by descent to Joachim Joseph André, third count Murat (1828-1904);
Thence by descent to his daughter Clotilde Murat (1868-1949), wife of Paul Lebaudy (1858-1937);
Thence by descent within the Lebaudy Family, until 2015;
Sotheby's Paris, 15 June 2021, lot 63
Paris, Salon of 1765 (Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de Messieurs de l'Académie royale..., Paris, 1765, no. 200: 'Une tête d'enfant, en marbre');
Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Marie-Antoinette et son temps, 1894, no. 235: 'Petit buste de jeune fille, marbre, portant les cheveux relevés et maintenus par un ruban, signé et daté 1763, appartient à Monsieur Paul Lebaudy'
B. Black, Vassé's 'Bambinelli', The Child Portraits of an 18th century French sculptor, London, 1994, no. 5b;
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1910-1911, vol. II, p. 377;
L. Réau, 'Un sculpteur oublié du XVIIIe siècle: Louis-Claude Vassé 1716-1772', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, July 1930, pp. 53-54;
A.L. Clark (ed.), Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from the Horvitz Collection, exh. cat. Petit Palais, Paris, 2017, pp. 346-347
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