IN THE MUSEUMS : LACMA
Bust of a Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers
Pierre Julien (French, St-Paulien, near Le Puy-en-Velay 1731–1804 Paris)
Terracotta
45.7 × 31.8 × 27.9 cm; Socle: 12.7 x 16.5 cm
Origin : Galerie Kraemer
Location : LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
At the Salon of 1779, Julien exhibited a work based on a memory from his years of study in Rome (1768-72): “Head of a Woman…covered by a veil and crowned with flowers, like the young girls dowried by the Pope and the College of Cardinals at the Church of the Minerva in Rome.”