Jean-Antoine Houdon (artist) 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.) gross weight: 285 lb. (129.275 kg) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.5.103

From the Tour: 18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism
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Exhibition History

1883

L'Art au XVIIIe siècle, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1883-1884, no. 250.

1888

Possibly Exposition de l'art français sous Louis XIV et sous Louis XV, Ecole des beaux-arts, Hôtel de Chimay, Paris, 1888, no. 77.

1908

Cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle et bustes, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1908, no. 212.

1932

Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 1005.

1974

Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

1976

The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1976, no. 228.

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