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Jean-Joseph Carriès
Portrait of Loyse Labbé1888-1894

Not on view
Terracotta or plaster bust sculpture of a young woman wearing a tall angular folk headdress and wide-collared garment, with a small cross pendant at the chest
Terracotta bust of a young girl wearing a tall pointed bonnet and ruffled dress, turned slightly in three-quarter view, with lively textured modeling throughout, mounted on a dark base.
Terracotta bust of a woman in three-quarter profile, wearing a tall pointed coif and ruffled collar, with naturalistic modeling and a warm beige-to-brown polychrome surface graduating darker toward the roughly finished base.
Gilt bronze architectural finial with a flame or bud form at the top, rising from layered lotus petals and broad acanthus-like leaves on a stepped base, with warm golden-brown patina.
Terracotta bust of a young woman in three-quarter view, wearing a large draped headdress, with finely modeled facial features and textured surface detail.
Artist or Maker
Jean-Joseph Carriès
France, Lyon, 1855-1894
Title
Portrait of Loyse Labbé
Date Made
1888-1894
Medium
Enameled stoneware with a matte glaze, toned from chamois brown to shaded white
Dimensions
23 × 25 × 13 in. (58.42 × 63.5 × 33.02 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation in honor of Mary L. Levkoff
Accession Number
M.2009.7
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Possibly the cast seen by Carriès’s biographer Arsène Alexandre in the artist’s studio in 1895. Lamartinière collection, 1900s, by descent to; Jean de Lamartinière, 2006, sold to; [Galerie Fournier, Paris, sold to]; [Charles Janoray, LLC, New York, sold 2008 to]; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.