Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture

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Lot 476
  • 476

A pair of French alabaster busts of Henry IV of France (1553-1610) and Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully (1560-1641), by Jean Claude François Rosset (1706-1786), circa 1780

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description

  • Alabaster
each signed ROSSET PERE A ST. CLAVDE, Henri IV wearing the Order of St Esprit, Sully with a medallion with profile portrait of Henri IV, on alabaster half-columns and socles.

Literature

M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 108, pp. 198-199

Catalogue Note

Jean Claude François Rosset, known as Rosset Père, was the most renowned member of a family of sculptors from Saint-Claude who specialized in bust portraits in marble, alabaster, and ivory.  He exhibited in the Salon de Correspondence in 1779.  Another example of the present pair dated 1780 was in the Alberto Bruni Tedeschi Collection, sold Sotheby's London, March 21, 2007, lot 19.

RELATED LITERATURE

U. Fischer, Une famille de sculpteurs et peintres Comtois, les Rosset, Paris, 1919