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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Giuseppe Balsamo, Comte di Cagliostro
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French, 1741 - 1828
Giuseppe Balsamo, Comte di Cagliostro, 1786
marble
overall (without base): 62.9 x 58.9 x 34.3 cm (24 3/4 x 23 3/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.5.103
From the Tour: 18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism
Object 1 of 7

1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 236, no. 95, repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 457, repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 193, repro. pl. 182-183
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 158
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 140, repro.
1976Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 111.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 645, no. 1015, repro.
1994Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 109, repro.
2003Poulet, Anne L. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Musée et domaine national du château de Versailles. Washington, D.C., 2003: 123-126, no. 14.

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