Portrait bust of Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)

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
Period

18th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Collection Octavien de Puygallarde; Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co.; Collection of Ryan Family, 1931.
Bibliography
  • Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Katherine Neilson, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 127, ill.
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Additional information

Object/Work type

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

Signed

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

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