Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Bust of Marie Julie Clary (177🃏1-1845), wife of Joseph Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Spain
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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT
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150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Joseph Chinard
Lyon 1756 - 1813
Bust of Marie Julie Clary (1771-1845), wife of Joseph Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Spain
signed and dated on front of the base Chinard f. d’après nature 1808
terracotta
height: 24 ¾ in.; 63.0 cm.
Marie Julie 🌼Clary, Queen of Naples, Spain ꦓand the Indies (1771-1845);
Possibly thence by i🀅nheritance possibly to her sister-in-l🥂aw, Caroline Bonaparte (1782-1839), and her husband Joachim Murat (1767-1815);
Possibly thence by inheritance possibly to his brotꩵher, And🦩ré Murat, (1760-1841);
Possibly thence by desce𝄹nt possibly to his son, Pierre Gaëtan Murat (1798-1847🍸);
Possibly thence by desc🃏ent to his son, Joachim Murat (18🐠28-1904);
Thence by descent to his daughter, Clotilde Mဣurat (1868-1949) and her husband Paul Lebaudy (1858-1937), 2ꦉ0 Place Vendôme, Paris;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Pierre Lebaudy and his wife Madame Pierreও Lebaudy;
Thence by descent.
G. Bapst, in Exposition historique et militaire de la Revolution et de l'Empire, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1895, cat. no. 526;
P. Lafond, Art décoratif et le mobilier sous la République et l’Empire, 1900, reproduced;
P. Vitry, in Exposition d'ceuvres du sculpteur Chinard de Lyon 1756-1813, exhibition catalogue, E. Lévy (ed.), Paris 1909, cat. no. 71𝓀;
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-huitième siècle, vol. I, Paris 1910-1911, p. 214;
A. Germain, Les Artistes lyonnais des origines à nos jours, Paris 1911, p. 34;
F. Desvernay, Le Vieux Lyon à l'Exposition internationale urbaine, 1914: description des oeuvres, objets d'art et curiosités : notices biographiques et documents historiques inédits, Paris 1915, p. 134;
W. G. Schwark, Die Porträtwerke Chinards, Berlin 1937, no. 110;
G. Hubert, La Sculpture dans l'Italie napoléonienne, Paris 1964, p. 352;
D. Scarisbrick, in The Art of Gem engraving from Alexander the Great to Napoleon III, exhibitiꦦon catalogue, Fukuoka 2008, cat. no. 82, p. 335, reproduc🍰ed p. 99;
D. Scarisbrick, Bijoux à portrait : camées, médailles et miniatures des Médicis aux Romanov, London 2011, p. 229, repr♎oduced p. 232, fig. 238.
Probably, Paris, Louvre, Salon du Musée Napoléon, 1808;
Paris, Galerie des Champs-Élysées, Exposition historique et militaire de la Revolution et de l'Empire, May 18✨95, no. 526 (loaned by A. M. Paul Lebaudy);
Paris, Union centrale des Arts, Pavillon Marsan, Exposition d’œuvres du sculpteur Chinard de Lyon (1756-1813), 1909,ꦜ cat. no. 71 (on loan from A. M. Paul Lebau🌃dy);
Kanagawa, The Hakone Open-Air Museum; Fukuoka, Fukuoka City Museum, The Art of Gem engraving from Alexander the Great to Napoleon II, 6 September - 26 October 2008, 15 Novembe♔r - 23 December 2008, no. 82.
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