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Jean Deydé was a high-ranking member of the bureau of accounting at Montpellier in southern France. The bust and its original pedestal with the Deydé arms once stood in the Orangerie of the family residence in Montpellier.
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Title: Marquis Jean Deydé (1617–1687)
Artist:
Christophe Veyrier (1637–1689)
Date: 1684
Culture: French, Toulon
Medium: Marble
Dimensions:
Bust, wt. confirmed: 26 × 23 1/2 × 11 in., 192 lb. (66 × 59.7 × 27.9 cm, 87.1 kg)
Pedestal with socle, wt. confirmed: 59 × 17 1/4 × 13 1/2 in., 677 lb. (149.9 × 43.8 × 34.3 cm, 307.1 kg)
Height (Total): 85 in. (215.9 cm)
Height (socle): 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Length (Length of socle pin): 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, in memory of James J. Rorimer, 1966
Object Number: 66.129a–c
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