The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Online Sale
The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Online Sale
French, Late 18th Century
A Child Seated on a Pillow
No reserve
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
white marble, on a bronze-mounted gray marble base
height overall: 11 ¼ in.; 28.5 cm.
Sotheby's Paris, 20 April 2012, lot 144;
Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.
The sculptor of the present work was probably inspired by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's Child in a Cage and Girl with a Bird, examples of which are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (acc. nos. RF 654 and RF 1511).
RELATED LITERATURE
J.-R. Gaborit, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1714-1785, Sculptures du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1985, p. 48-55.