Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine by Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot
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Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot · 1839

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Galerie Martel Greiner, Paris, before 1988 [according to Robert Kashey, Director, Shepherd Gallery, telephone conversation, March 4, 2003, notes in curatorial file]; sold to Robert Kashey, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1988; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Shepherd Gallery, "French Nineteenth-Century Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings and Sculpture," Spring 1988, cat. 56A.

Literature

Published references

  • Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 4, reprint (Liechtenstein, 1970), p. 80.
  • Paris, Academie d’Architecture, Catalogue des collections: 1750–1900 1 (Paris: Academie d’Architecture, 1987), p. 346, no. 715.

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