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Portrait of a Woman
Jean Baptiste Defernex (French, c. 1729-1783)1759
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The precise rendering of the costume and the unique facial features of the woman indicate this work is a true portrait, although the sitter has yet to be identified.
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- Title: Portrait of a Woman
- Creator: Jean Baptiste Defernex (French, c. 1729-1783)
- Date Created: 1759
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 39.3 x 24.6 x 14.7 cm (15 1/2 x 9 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.); without base: 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Galerie de Bayser & Strolin (Paris, France), sold to Severance and Greta Millikin, Severance Millikin (1895-1985) and Greta Millikin (1903-1989), upon his death, retained by Greta Millikin, Greta Millikin (1903-1989), upon her death, held in trust by the estate., Estate of Greta Millikin, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.155
- Medium: terracotta
- Inscriptions: Signed on cut of left proper arm: "p[ar?] j. B, F, Defernex 1759"
- Fun Fact: Jean Baptiste Defernex was known for keeping things more natural in his sculptures of people—#nofilter!
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Collection: Sculpture
- Accession Number: 1989.155
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