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Title:
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Portrait of a Woman
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is a plaster cast which is identical to a signed and dated portrait statuette in bronze of 1837 (Private Collection, London). It is possible that this is a portrait of the singer, Henriette Sontag, who was married to Count Carlo Rossi, Sardinian ambassador to the Hague. This identification is made on the basis of its resemblance to a portrait of Henriette Sontag by Paul Delaroche, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. (see also entry on the bronze) The many small ridges on the surface of this plaster were produced by the joins of the many sections of the piece mould from which both it and the bronze were cast.
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Material(s): |
Plaster
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Portrait Statuette (seated)
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Location: |
Brunswick (Maine), Bowdoin College Museum of Art,, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1837 |
Height: |
0.34 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
2083 |
Acc. No.: |
2082 |
Col. No.: |
2082 |
Number of views: |
2795 |
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