Name: General Lafayette Mask - Item #254
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SKU: 2228506930
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General Lafayette Mask - Item #25412. 25 Inches High x 9. 5 Inches Wide x 7 Inches Deep This life size mask, taken from the famous bust, is of the American Revolution hero, the Marquis de Lafayette. The Virginia General Assembly sought to honor him after the victory at Yorktown in 1781, and upon recommendations from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Barclay, the Assembly commissioned sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon. Houdon made a life mask of Lafayette in 1785 when the latter was 28 years old,

29 April 2015

This statue pedestal references the Ionic columns of the ancient Greek Ionic architectural order

his friends and colleagues recognized it as an important artwork in its own right and suggested he make a mold of it to produce copies

1911 Catalog ID # - 8351

this piece was featured in the Egyptian section and noted as being in the collection of the Louvre Museum

"Cast of a female torso found at Capua and now in the Museo Archaeological Nazionale at Naples

and possibly Princeton University Art Museum

city of Akhetaten (Amarna) in modern-day Minya Governorate

" Art Inventories Catalog

The Aphrodite of Knidos

such as the style of the sculptor Polykleitos

375 Inches Wide x 2