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Plaque with the Profile of a Man, Possibly Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The sitter is seen in profile, facing left. He has a markedly aquiline nose and jutting lower jaw. He wears his own hair, shoulder length and gently curled, and has a mustache and chin tuft. In addition to a heavy scalloped lace collar, he wears an embroidered sash. The Order of Saint Esprit is suspended from a ribbon about his neck. The portrait may represent Armand de Bourbon, prince of Conti (1629-1666). Armand was the younger brother of Louis II de Bourbon, known as le Grande Condé, whom the bust was formerly thought to represent.
The ivory has been mounted on an ebonized wood plaque, the back of which is inscribed in ink: 779 trl, 451 TLL and 403 TAL. A paper sticker with the number 7 written in ink also appears on the plaque.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
71.427