Bust of Rossini (1831): Art, History and Details

Bust of Rossini (1831) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Pierre Jean David d'Angers (French, 1788–1856).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792–1868) was a composer most famous for his comic operas. Although of Italian birth, much of Rossini's later life was spent in Paris, where he undoubtedly sat for this portrait for David d'Angers, whose ambition it was to sculpt portraits of all the famous people of his day.

Object facts

• Title: Bust of Rossini
• Date: 1831
• Creator attribution: Pierre Jean David d'Angers (French, 1788–1856)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: marble
• Dimensions: with base: 68.3 x 25.4 x 31.8 cm (26 7/8 x 10 x 12 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1980.182

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.

View the collection record

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