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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

Provenance: Galerie Kraemer
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

Buste de jeune fille voilée et couronnée de fleurs Pierre Julien (Français, St-Paulien, près du Puy-en-Velay 1731–1804 Paris) 1779 Terre cuite 45,7 × 31,8 × 27,9 cm
Buste de jeune fille voilée et couronnée de fleurs

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.”