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VINCENT DESIRE FAURE DE BROUSSé (FRENCH, 1876-1908[?]) Une damoiselle florentine du XVIè siècle (A sixteenth-century Florentine maiden) signed and dated 'FAURE de BROUSSE 1876', on a square ormolu base hung with baldachines bronze, patinated 26 ? in. (66.5 cm.) high, the bust 32 in. (81 cm.) high, overall
This bronze may be described as a pendant to Faure de Broussé Patricienne florentine du XVIè siècle, first exhibited at the 1876 Paris Salon (no. 3271). The model for the present bronze bust was shown the following year, followed by the same model in marble at the 1878 salon (no. 4245). Singled out for the Faure de Broussé's attention to detail and historical accuracy, 'Dame' et 'Damoiselle', as the busts were referred, acheived great acclaim. As one art critic exclaimed : "[les bustes sont] très remarquées... par leur touche si fine, leur exactitude si parfaite dans la vérité historique... les coiffer, les vêtir! Dans les moindre détail, le savant artiste se montre un fervent adepte de la vérité archéologique" ( 'Souvenirs de l'Exposition', L'Univers illustré, 23 November 1878, p. 752).