The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Bust of Rossini
1831
(French, 1788–1856)
with base: 68.3 x 25.4 x 31.8 cm (26 7/8 x 10 x 12 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1980.182
Location: Not on view
Description
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792–1868) was a composer most famous for his comic operas. Although of Italian birth, much of Rossini's later life was spent in Paris, where he undoubtedly sat for this portrait for David d'Angers, whose ambition it was to sculpt portraits of all the famous people of his day.- [Black Nadeau Gallery, Monte Carlo]; [Bruton Gallery, Somerset, England]
- Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219. Reproduced: p. 193; Mentioned: p. 212, no. 41 www.jstor.org
- CMA 1981: "Year in Review 1980," Bulletin, LXVIII (June 1981), p. 212, cat. no. 41, repr. p. 193
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