A similar bust is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which describes it as a variant of the bust in the Louvre (RF1800A) by Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810), which also has a version in bronze (RF1157), giving the date for the original plaster model at 1799 and the marble version at 1804, as one of 1,200 marble versions made for Napoleon’s sister Elisa Baciocchi, with the principality of Lucca and Massa-Carrara, an area which included the Apuan Alps from which Carrara marble was extracted between 1807 and 1809. Another version in marble was sold at Christie’s Sydney, 15th–16th May 2004, lot 237. Chaudet sold a plaster version to the factory at Sèvres in 1804 (an example exhibited by Christie’s, Paris, ‘Empire: mis en scène par monsieur Hubert de Givenchy, 8th–25th September 2014 (?), No.