{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"La Tribune de l’Art","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com","title":"A new Roubiliac enters the Louvre","author_name":"Alexandre Lafore","width":"1600","height":"900","url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/a-new-roubiliac-enters-the-louvre","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/a-new-roubiliac-enters-the-louvre'\u003EA new Roubiliac enters the Louvre\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf the first part of the three Manny Davidson sales had been crowned with considerable success in the autumn, one of the lots we reproduced in our article was \u2014 rather curiously \u2014 passed over, despite an estimate that was by no means unreasonable! It was therefore, in all probability within that estimate range, set at \u20ac60,000 to \u20ac80,000, that the Department of Sculptures at the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre was immediately able to seize such a fine opportunity to enrich its foreign collections by negotiating at Sotheby\u2019s a bust of Alexander Pope by Louis Fran\u00e7ois Roubiliac, the most \u201cFrench\u201d of eighteenth-century British sculptors. Passed in commission on 12 February, it is already recorded in the collections database and could, in the coming weeks, join the rooms housing a small but already significant collection of European sculpture, which is eager to grow and, above all, to be visible\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}