A gilt bronze and porphyry relief portrait

A Louis XVI gilt bronze and porphyry relief portrait of a gentleman,
signed and dated F.C. THIERARD 1777

Height: 24 cm. (9 ½ in.)    Width: 18.7 cm. (7 ¼ in.)    Thickness: 2.6 cm. (1 in.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York

Literature

E.Fahy and F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: volume V, paintings, drawings, sculpture, New York, 1973, p. 406, no. 51 (ill