Rare And Unique Terracotta Jean-baptiste Boudard (1710-1768) Dated 1733

RARE and Unique terracotta Jean-Baptiste BOUDARD (1710-1768) dated 1733

Portrait of Mr. Jean François SELLON in bust
the original terracotta of this artist are rare. we can find some but not signed, attributed.
this original terracotta is guaranteed to be authentic, unique and from the period it is in good general condition but has restorations and some chips

Patinated terracotta sculpture, signed and dated on the back "JF SELLON PAR JB BOUDARD 1733"

Top. : 34 cm

Note: Jean-François SELLON or de SELLON (1707-1790), Chargé d'affaires then Minister of the Republic of Geneva in Paris (1749-1764). He had married Suzanne Chabert, of Huguenot origin like him, of whom there is a portrait by Louis Tocqué kept at the Museum of Art and History of Geneva. The Geneva painter Jean-François GUILLIBAUD (1718-1799) painted a pastel portrait of Jean-François SELLON (Léopold MAURICE collection, Chougny, Geneva), cited in "A family of Geneva artists in the 17th and 18th centuries: the Guillibauds" , by W. DEONNA, page 13 n ° 37. The Sellon family comes from the South of France. These are the Huguenots who fled Nîmes following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and who in 1699 became bourgeois in the city of Geneva. This rich family of bankers and silk traders with branches in London and Paris became part of the patrician families of Geneva. Gaspard Sellon (1702–1785) acquired in 1755 the seigneury of Allaman (Vaud), which after his death fell to his brother Jean François (1707–1790), father of Jean and grandfather of Jean-Jacques. Jean-François had the first cedars of Lebanon planted in 1735 near his house in what is now Beaulieu Park in Geneva.