Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Anne Robert Turgot, Baron of Laulne
Jean Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)
- Date
- 1778
- Medium
- Patinated plaster
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Economist Anne Robert Turgot aimed to stabilize France’s financial situation, which had deteriorated during Louis XV’s reign. Some of Turgot’s ideas later influenced economic reforms espoused during the French Revolution, including his efforts to abolish corvée, a system of intermittent forced labor imposed on the peasant class. In this plaster portrait, Turgot wears a curly wig fashionable for men of the period. A lace jabot—the ruffled ornamentation at the front of the shirt—pokes through his simple vest.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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