* France, early 19th century (?), after a model by François- - Lot 44

* France, early 19th century (?), after a model by François-Marie SUZANNE (1750-1813). Jean-Jacques Rousseau Carved ivory figurine. Bears a "MAY.58" label. Height : 12.6 cm. Weight : 88.1 g. Related work: -François-Marie Suzanne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1785/1800, bronze, height: 38.5 cm with base, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. OA 5298. In the 19th century, as the ideas of 18th-century philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau spread, a large number of statuettes bearing their effigies were produced in a variety of materials. Workshops in Dieppe and the Jura, such as that of the Rosset family, produced ivory statuettes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau based on a model by sculptor François-Marie Suzanne.