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ATELIER DES ROSSET, ATTRIBUÉ À JEAN-FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH ROSSET, DIT DUPONT (SA
ATELIER DES ROSSET, ATTRIBUÉ À JEAN-FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH ROSSET, DIT DUPONT (SAINT-CLAUDE, 1706 - 1786)
Portrait of King Henri IV Half-body bust in alabaster
Signed, located and dated below the shoulder in capital letters: Rosset/St Claude/1771
Total height: 71 cm| width: 48 cm
Quadrangular alabaster base inlaid with black marble bearing the inscription: Henri IV.
Height: 18 cm
Small accidents and missing pieces
Provenance
Collection of Marie de Rohan-Chabot, Princess Lucien Murat, Paris
Passed down through the family
Bibliography
M. Buffenoir, "Une famille d'artistes franccomtois au dix-huitième siècle: les Rosset", Gazette des Beaux-arts, February 1923, pp.
121-126 --- Exhibition catalogue: Les Rosset. Un atelier jurassien au temps des Lumières, Dole, Nov.
2001- February 2002
Expert
Albéric Froissart albe.froissart@gmail.com "There is no one who knows how to give life to a bust like the sculptor of Franche-Comté" wrote King Frederick II about Jean-François-Joseph Rosset of whom we see here an unpublished work, the greatest realization in the register of the sculpted portrait that we know of him to date. Coming from a family of Jura sculptors confined to the art craft through small religious objects in boxwood, alabaster or ivory, Notre
Rosset owes his notoriety to the interest Voltaire showed in him, who was largely installed in the castle of Ferney. In the obituary dedicated to him in the Journal de Paris dated January 4, 1787, the Marquis de Vilette wrote: "M. Rosset made the first busts of Voltaire, who until then, had not consented to lend his face. Subjugated by the bonhomie of this artist, whom he knew by reputation, he welcomed him to Ferney| and I witnessed the ingenuity with which Voltaire took off his wig, while playing chess to lend him his head." It was, moreover, by popularizing the image of the philosopher that Rosset acquired fame and recognition from the great ones of the time. By admiring a Saint
Jerome taken out of its m
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Portrait of King Henri IV Half-body bust in alabaster
Signed, located and dated below the shoulder in capital letters: Rosset/St Claude/1771
Total height: 71 cm| width: 48 cm
Quadrangular alabaster base inlaid with black marble bearing the inscription: Henri IV.
Height: 18 cm
Small accidents and missing pieces
Provenance
Collection of Marie de Rohan-Chabot, Princess Lucien Murat, Paris
Passed down through the family
Bibliography
M. Buffenoir, "Une famille d'artistes franccomtois au dix-huitième siècle: les Rosset", Gazette des Beaux-arts, February 1923, pp.
121-126 --- Exhibition catalogue: Les Rosset. Un atelier jurassien au temps des Lumières, Dole, Nov.
2001- February 2002
Expert
Albéric Froissart albe.froissart@gmail.com "There is no one who knows how to give life to a bust like the sculptor of Franche-Comté" wrote King Frederick II about Jean-François-Joseph Rosset of whom we see here an unpublished work, the greatest realization in the register of the sculpted portrait that we know of him to date. Coming from a family of Jura sculptors confined to the art craft through small religious objects in boxwood, alabaster or ivory, Notre
Rosset owes his notoriety to the interest Voltaire showed in him, who was largely installed in the castle of Ferney. In the obituary dedicated to him in the Journal de Paris dated January 4, 1787, the Marquis de Vilette wrote: "M. Rosset made the first busts of Voltaire, who until then, had not consented to lend his face. Subjugated by the bonhomie of this artist, whom he knew by reputation, he welcomed him to Ferney| and I witnessed the ingenuity with which Voltaire took off his wig, while playing chess to lend him his head." It was, moreover, by popularizing the image of the philosopher that Rosset acquired fame and recognition from the great ones of the time. By admiring a Saint
Jerome taken out of its m
MOA2021