Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait Bust
Albert-Ernest Carrier-BelleuseLinkedCulture matchlcp-4293af37f8a0
- Date
- c. 1865
- Medium
- terracotta
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 157139
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Among the artists who reacted against the static poses of neoclassical art, Carrier-Belleuse drew inspiration from the opulence and excess of Rococo portraiture of the 1700s. This bust resembles one of Napoleon III's mistresses, Marguerite Bellanger, whose features the artist is known to have borrowed for his female busts. Carrier-Belleuse received commissions from Napoleon III, ruler of France from 1852 to 1870, and contributed to the sculptural decorations of the Louvre and Opera Garnier in Paris. The possible muse for this bust, Virginia Oldonia, was a countess know for her drama and costumes.
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- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Provenance
- possibly descendants of Carrier-Belleuse's daughter Marie-Gabrielle and her husband Joseph Cheret; [Elstir Galerie, Paris]
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