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Pierre Julien French
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At the Salon of 1779, Julien exhibited a work based on a memory from his years of study in Rome (1768-72): "Head of a Woman...covered by a veil and crowned with flowers, like the young girls dowried by the Pope and the College of Cardinals at the Church of the Minerva in Rome."
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Title: Bust of a Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers
Artist:
Pierre Julien (French, St-Paulien, near Le Puy-en-Velay 1731–1804 Paris)
Date: ca. 1779
Culture: French
Medium: Terracotta2014
Dimensions: Overall (without socle): 18 × 12 1/2 × 11 in. (45.7 × 31.8 × 27.9 cm); Socle: 5 x 6 1/2 in. (12.7 x 16.5 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, C. Michael Paul Gift, 1978
Object Number: 1978.1
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