Portrait bust of Jean le Rond d'Alembert | Yale University Art Gallery

probably 1802

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Marble
Dimensions: Overall with base: 20 11/16 × 11 3/16 × 9 1/4 in. (52.55 × 28.42 × 23.5 cm)
base: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
object without base: 16 5/16 × 11 3/16 × 9 1/4 in. (41.43 × 28.42 × 23.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of McA. Donald Ryan, B.A. 1934, and William H. Ryan, class of 1921s
Accession Number: 1957.47.1
Culture: French
Period: 18th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Collection Octavien de Puygallarde; Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co.; Collection of Ryan Family, 1931.

Bibliography

Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 127, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

busts (sculpture), human figures (visual works), portraits

Signed: Subject's right side: "Houdon F 1779"

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