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Description: | Artist: Curtius, Philippe, sculptor - Swiss wax modeler, 1737-1794; Date(s): circa 1775 - 1800; Classification(s): sculpture, bust, wax, coloured flesh, red, olive-green and grey; Acquisition: bequeathed by Pyke, Edward Joseph, 1996, Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke [M.6-1996]
Description: Bust of an unidentified old man. Wax coloured flesh, red, olive-green and grey. Bust of a wrinkled old man in profile to left, wearing an open-necked garment. Black background. In rectangular gilt-wood frame with glass front set in a wider ebonized wood frame.
A pair with M.5-1996. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture Curtius, Philippe bust | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1775; end=1800 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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