IDENTIFIERS
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id:	31400
accession number:	M.1-1981

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 3 December 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Alabaster bust, on alabaster socle attached to the bust by a central screw. The sitter is represented with his head turned slightly to his right. He wears a tie wig with long flowing curls, a cravat, armour, and a cloak which is draped across the lower part of the bust at the front. There is a sash over his right shoulder, and round his neck is a ribbon from which is suspended the Insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The bust ends just above the elbows and slopes downwards to a little above the waist at the centre front.
title:	bust

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Daniel Katz, 22 Grosvenor Square, London, W1


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Gow Fund and with a 50% Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31400

PEOPLE
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Etienne-François duc de Choiseul-Amboise




TECHNIQUES
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alabaster, carved
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1773 - 1773
creation date earliest:	1773
creation date latest:	1773
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Rosset, Jean-François-Joseph

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 36.0

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 20.3



CITATIONS
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975
Gazette des Beaux Arts, March 1982
Une famille de sculpteurs et peintres comtois: Les Rosset
La Toison d'Or
Fine Decorative Arts: Baroque to Neo-Classicism
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