Italie, Carrare, atelier de Joseph CHINARD ( 1756-1813), vers 1805 - * Félix BACIOCCHI (1762-1841), Prince of LUCQUES White marble bust.
Total height: 69 cm
Total height including pedestal in gray-veined white marble.
Height: 13 cm
Resting on a lacquered wood sheath.
Related works:
Joseph CHINARD, Félix and Elisa BACIOCCHI, princes of LUCQUES and PIOMBINO, terracotta busts, exhibited at the
CHINARD exhibition in Paris in 1909.
Joseph CHINARD, Felix BACIOCCHI (1762-1841), circa 1805, petite nature bust in terracotta on a green marble plinth, signed
CHINARD de Lyon on the front, collection of Prince MURAT, then
SOTHEBY'S Paris, March 23, 2006, lot 111 and SOTHEBY'S New York, January 26, 2012, lot 364 and SOTHEBY'S Paris sale, October 13, 2022, Hôtel LAMBERT, Une collection Princière, vol.III, lot 656.
Joseph CHINARD, pair of marble busts exhibited in Rome in 2011.
Related literature:
G. HUBERT, La sculpture dans L'Italie Napoléonienne, Paris, 1964, no. L'Italie Napoléonienne.
Alberto and Alessandra di CASTRO, I busti in marmo di Elisa e Felice
Baciocchi colpiti a Lucca nel 1805 da Joseph Chinard, Rome, 2011.
This white marble bust represents Elisa BONAPARTE's husband,
Félix BACIOCCHI, dressed in the uniform of a brigadier general and wearing the grand eagle of the Legion of Honor. The costume and decoration date the model to 1805. It could even be the official portrait of Félix BACIOCCHI, painted after his appointment as Prince of LUCQUES on March 4, 1805. The coronation of Prince BACIOCCHI and his wife took place on Messidor 12 (July 1, 1805), and it is highly likely that the princely couple commissioned the famous Lyon sculptor Joseph CHINARD, who had recently moved to Carrara, to create their official effigies. A terracotta medallion portrait of the Prefect of Lucca Antoine-
Marie-Pierre de HAUTMESNIL recently offered for sale in 2023 (Etude CONAN-BELLEVILLE Lyon, sale 03/25/2023, lot 150) features the following signature: Chinard, statuaire de la cour de Lucca.
Provenance:
Osenat sale, November 20, 2016, lot 448.
Estim. 3,000 - 4,000 EUR