Pair of Antique French Historicist Marble Busts
£6,500
A pair of French historicist marble busts of Henri IV (1553-1610) and Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully (1560-1641), after Jean-Claude François Joseph Rosset (1706-1786)
Height 51 cm (20 inches)
Width 38 cm (15 inches)
Depth 22 cm (8.75 inches)
19th century
Rosset first sculpted busts of this model in the 1770s and his workshop, under the supervision of his sons, continued to produce examples into the early 19th century. Henri IV and Sully were popular subjects in the late 18th century – Wedgwood produced portrait medallions of them in the 1780s
