About the Artwork
Portrait of Louis XVI
18th century
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
active 1756 - present
French
Unknown
Biscuit porcelain
Overall: 7/8 × 6 inches (2.2 × 15.2 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
29.195
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Provenance
(Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Inc., Paris, France)
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1956, p. 95, no. 503.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Portrait of Louis XVI, 18th century, biscuit porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.195.
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