Maréchal de Bauffremont

Artist Luc-François Breton (French, 1731-1800)

Place of OriginFrance

Dateabout 1771-1773

DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 24 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 13 in. (62.2 × 52.1 × 33 cm)

MediumTerracotta

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1977.35

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 26, Rotunda

Label TextThe subject of this sculpture bust is Charles-Roger, Prince de Bauffremont (1713–1795), Maréchal des Camps et Armées du Roi (Marshal of the Camps and Armies of the King). He served a military career first in the army of Lorraine, and then of France. The Bauffremonts were the leading family of the former French province Franche-Comté (now incorporated into the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). Luc-François Breton was the leading sculptor of Bescançon, the capital city of the province, and he sculpted portraits of several members of the Bauffremont family.Published ReferencesLami, Stanislas, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'ecole francaise au 18e siècle, Paris, 1910, I, p. 133.

McCorquodale, Charles, review of Heim exhibition, Connoisseur, Aug. 1977, p. 309.

"La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 97, no. 1346, Mar. 1981, repr. p. 37.

Scherf, Guilhem, "Two French Terracottas in the United States: Le Silence by Mouchy at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Portrait of a Man in the Huntington Collection," The Sculpture Journal, vol. 5, 2001, pp. 81, 82 r. 29 & 30, fig. 12.

Bennett, Shelley M. and Carolyn Sargentson, eds., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, New Haven, Yale, 2008, p. 460, fig. 179, p. 459.

Scherf, Guilhem, "Une dation pour Besançon un buste attribuè à Luc Breton," Revue du Louvre: la revue des musees de France, June 2011, no. 3, fig. 2, p. 13-14, repr. p. 14

Scherf, Guilhem, "Un buste attribue a Luc Breton, propose en dation, affecte au musee des Beaux-arts de Besancon," Revue des musees de France-Revue du Louvre, June 2011, no. 3, repr. pg. 14, fig. 2.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Heim, Aspects of French Academic Art 1680-1780, 1977, no. 41, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Museum Collects: Treasures by Sculptors and Craftsmen, December 7, 1980-January 25, 1981, pp. 26-27, repr.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Cornillot, Lucie, Le Sculpteur bisontin Luc Breton, Besançon, 1940, p. 102, 121, pl. VIII.