Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010685Portrait Bust
About the Artwork
Among the artists who reacted against the static poses of neoclassical art, Carrier-Belleuse drew inspiration from the opulence and excess of Rococo portraiture of the 1700s. This bust resembles one of Napoleon III's mistresses, Marguerite Bellanger, whose features the artist is known to have borrowed for his female busts. Carrier-Belleuse received commissions from Napoleon III, ruler of France from 1852 to 1870, and contributed to the sculptural decorations of the Louvre and Opera Garnier in Paris.
Inscriptions
incised in the clay on the back: "A. Carrier"
Provenance
possibly descendants of Carrier-Belleuse's daughter Marie-Gabrielle and her husband Joseph Cheret; [Elstir Galerie, Paris]
Exhibition history
Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887)
- Date
- c. 1865
- Medium
- terracotta
- Dimensions
- with base: 77.4 x 38.1 x 28.6 cm (30 1/2 x 15 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1993.38
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