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image of Giuseppe Balsamo, Comte di Cagliostro
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
Not on View
From the Tour: 18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism
Object 1 of 7

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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