BUST OF CHARLES-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, COUNT OF ARTOIS, FUTURE CHARLES X

Creator(s): Fernando Ciancianaini (Sculptor)

On view in: French Drawing Room

About this object

The bust shows a boy wearing curled wig of the period. He turns and looks to the left. He wears an elaborate jabot at his neck. He also wears a sash across his right shoulder from which hangs the badge of an order while on his left breast is the star of the order of the Saint Esprit. It stands on a yellow marble pedestal base.

Object name:

BUST OF CHARLES-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, COUNT OF ARTOIS, FUTURE CHARLES X

Made from:

Terracotta

Made in:

Paris, France

Date made:

early 20th Century

Size:

25.4 cm (10 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

27.17

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

SIGNATURE; DATE; NAME Comte d'Artois [Writtten in the teracotta on the back] Fernand Cian and date 1771 [?] [On back of left shoulder incised]

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973