Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001946Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine
Inscriptions
Inscribed: P. Fontaine (front of base); Petitot 1839 (lower left of right side of base); Charles Micheli / 29 rue Guenegaud (engraved on metal plaque embedded center back of base)
Provenance
Galerie Martel Greiner, Paris, before 1988 [according to Robert Kashey, Director, Shepherd Gallery, telephone conversation, March 4, 2003, notes in curatorial file]; sold to Robert Kashey, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1988; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.
Exhibition history
New York, Shepherd Gallery, "French Nineteenth-Century Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings and Sculpture," Spring 1988, cat. 56A.
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 4, reprint (Liechtenstein, 1970), p. 80. Paris, Academie d’Architecture, Catalogue des collections: 1750–1900 1 (Paris: Academie d’Architecture, 1987), p. 346, no. 715.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot (French, 1794–1862)
- Date
- 1839
- Medium
- Painted plaster
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 29.2 cm (14 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- bust/head
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Barrington Associates in memory of Jennie and William Wolffs and S. Lee Wolffs and Franklin H. Pecaro; Ryerson and Burnham Libraries funds
- Accession no.
- 1988.275
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