Bust of a Woman of African Descent after 1794 After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon This small bust is a reduction of a life-sized painted plaster by Houdon in the Musée de Soissons, believed to have been exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1781. The Soissons plaster has traditionally been associated with the fountain made by Houdon for Louis Philippe Joseph dOrléans, duc de Chartres (the future duc d'Orléans) exotic English gardens designed by Carmontelle at Monceau, near Paris. Carmontelles guidebook of the gardens, published in 1779, apparently before the fountain had been installed, records a description of Houdons fountain group as consisting of a standing black servant pouring water over a white seated bather. This bather, now in the Museums collection (14.40.673), is the sole remnant of the extraordinary fountain group, the rest of which was destroyed during the French Revolution. It is likely that the Soissons bust was either a study for or derived directly from this servant fi

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Bust of a Woman of African Descent after 1794 After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon This small bust is a reduction of a life-sized painted plaster by Houdon in the Musée de Soissons, believed to have been exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1781. The Soissons plaster has traditionally been associated with the fountain made by Houdon for Louis Philippe Joseph dOrléans, duc de Chartres (the future duc d'Orléans) exotic English gardens designed by Carmontelle at Monceau, near Paris. Carmontelles guidebook of the gardens, published in 1779, apparently before the fountain had been installed, records a description of Houdons fountain group as consisting of a standing black servant pouring water over a white seated bather. This bather, now in the Museums collection (14.40.673), is the sole remnant of the extraordinary fountain group, the rest of which was destroyed during the French Revolution. It is likely that the Soissons bust was either a study for or derived directly from this servant fi

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