Bust of an Actress as a Bacchante

ca. 1782

55.9 cm 93 cm 29.2 cm

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This sculpture shows how fame, sex, art, and commerce came together in France immediately before the French Revolution of 1789. To contemporary viewers, the smiling woman portrayed here may well have been recognizable as a specific person, as actresses were well-known celebrit...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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