Masterpiece Quiz

Answer:
Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Serilly Comtesse de Pange (1762-1799)
by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
Marble
height including plinth 35 1/2 inches (89.9 cm)
Art Institute of Chicago
This recently rediscovered marble is signed and dated 1780, the year after the 18-year-old sitter's marriage. It predates by two years the famed version in the Wallace Collection,
London.

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