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Frontal portrait bust of a woman with scarf; black marble pedestal; gold, grey veins.
busts (figures)
stone (rock)
Sculpture
Bust
Stone
Bust
From "A Family Collects: Paintings and Sculpture from the Codman House," Concord Museum, 1993-1994: Marble sculptures or plaster casts of well-known antique statuary were often found in the homes of Boston merchants in the Federal period. Richard Codman bought two pieces of sculpture from LeBrun. One was a copy of an antique marble of a hermaphrodite. The other was this work which was described as "a very beautiful bust of a young roman girl after a greek marble." It may be related to the Vestale Zingarella, an antique sculpture now in the Louvre in Paris.
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
19 x 11.75 x 10.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.2119
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