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The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian

Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne (Paris 1704 – 1778), circa 1750

Pair of Busts of a Young Boy and a Young Girl

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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25,000 USD

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The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian

Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne (Paris 1704 – 1778), circa 1750

Pair of Busts of a Young Boy and a Young Girl


terracotta, on grey marble socles

height of busts: 9 in.; 22.9 cm

height, overall: 12 ½ in.; 32 cm

A.M. Octave Homberg;

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1931, lots 281 and 282;

Larcade Collection, Paris;

Their sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 25 May 1951, lot 64;

Blumka Collection, New York;

Their Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 9-10 January 1996, lot 107;

Paris, Drouot, 17 December 2010, lot 225;

Paris, Sotheby's, 7 November 2013, lot 243;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

Paris, Salon Exhibition, 1750, no. 53.

Mercure de France, October, 1761;

L. Réau, Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIIe siècle, les Lemoyne, Paris 1927, p. 153, no. 167;

B. Black, Vasse's Bambinelli. The Child portraits of an 18th century French sculptor, London 1994, pp. 49-50, fig. 24.