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Bust of a Woman

c. 1700-1720
René Frémin (French (active Paris and Spain), 1672–1744)
This portrait belongs to an innovative group in which French sculptors modernized the depiction of women along the lines of contemporary, early-eighteenth-century painters. A number of these busts represented women related to artists. Sometimes, as here, a sculptor at the beginning of his career would carve a bust to demonstrate his mastery of portraiture. Later, in the 1720s, while working for the Spanish court, Frémin executed a series of distinguished portraits of members of the royal family.

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