Philippe Laurent Roland
Portrait of a Girl
1768-1778
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Philippe Laurent Roland
Portrait of a Girl
1768-1778
Physical Qualities
Tinted plaster on marble plinth, 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss
Object Number
1967.37.145
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1967; Susan Dwight Bliss, until 1967; Charles Francis Williamson, Paris, until 1918.
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Fletcher (Isaac D.) and Charles F. Williamson Collections (New York: American Art Association, 1918), no. 242, ill.
La Chronique des Arts, no. 1189, 1958, p. 70 (cat. no 265).
Baltimore Sunday Sun, “Object of the Week,” February 1, 1959, p. 174, ill.
James David Draper, “Pajou et Roland,” in Augustin Pajou et ses contemporains. Actes du colloque, musee du Louvre, 1997 (Paris, 1999), 540, note 10.
"Families Make Meaningful Connections at The BMA," BMA Today (Summer 2010), 5, ill.
Philippe-Laurent Roland, Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1774, marble. Collection of Rodolphe Kahn, Paris, now lost.
Philippe-Laurent Roland, Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1774, plaster, H. 48,9 cm. Paris, Musee Cognacq-Jay.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Thérèse-Françoise Potain Roland, Wife of the Sculptor, ca. 1782-1783, France, terracotta, 78.5 x 48 x 26 cm (30 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.). Washington, National Gallery of Art. 2003.43.1.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Portrait Bust of the Architect Pierre Rousseau, 18th century, France, terracotta, h. 53 cm. Saint Petersburg, The Hermitage.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Augustin Pajou, 1797, France, terracotta and marble, H. 0,57 m; D: 0,51 m; W: 0,31 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 778.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Lise Roland, 1805, France, marble, H: 0,438 m; D: 0,29 m; W: 0,23 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 3676.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Denis Sébastien Leroy, 1797, France, marble, H: 0,535 m; W: 0,455 m; D: 0,285 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 2391.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Joseph Benoît Suvée, 1788, France, H: 0,54 m; W: 0,43 m; D: 0,305 m. Paris, Louvre, no. N 15534.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Autoportrait, ca. 1785, France, marble. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 1998.64.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Sleeping Boy, ca. 1774, France, terracotta, painted white, 22 9/16 × 14 × 10 1/8 in. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wrightsman Fund, 1990, no. 1990.206.
Henry Marcel, “Quelques Oeuvres Inedits de Philippe Roland,” Gazette des Beaux Arts (1901, Part I): 177-189 (illustration p. 182).
West, Alison. From Pigalle to Préault: Neoclassicism and the Sublime in French Sculpture, 1760-1840 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Draper, James David. “Philippe-Laurent Roland in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” in Metropolitan Museum Journal, volume 27, 1992, p. 129-147.
________________. “L'art français au Metropolitan. Les terres cuites néo-classiques,” in Connaissance des arts, no 467 (January 1991): 91-99.
Philippe-Laurent Roland, Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1774, plaster, H. 48,9 cm. Paris, Musee Cognacq-Jay.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Thérèse-Françoise Potain Roland, Wife of the Sculptor, ca. 1782-1783, France, terracotta, 78.5 x 48 x 26 cm (30 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.). Washington, National Gallery of Art. 2003.43.1.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Portrait Bust of the Architect Pierre Rousseau, 18th century, France, terracotta, h. 53 cm. Saint Petersburg, The Hermitage.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Augustin Pajou, 1797, France, terracotta and marble, H. 0,57 m; D: 0,51 m; W: 0,31 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 778.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Lise Roland, 1805, France, marble, H: 0,438 m; D: 0,29 m; W: 0,23 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 3676.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Denis Sébastien Leroy, 1797, France, marble, H: 0,535 m; W: 0,455 m; D: 0,285 m. Paris, Louvre, no. RF 2391.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Joseph Benoît Suvée, 1788, France, H: 0,54 m; W: 0,43 m; D: 0,305 m. Paris, Louvre, no. N 15534.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Autoportrait, ca. 1785, France, marble. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 1998.64.
Philippe Laurent-Roland, Sleeping Boy, ca. 1774, France, terracotta, painted white, 22 9/16 × 14 × 10 1/8 in. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wrightsman Fund, 1990, no. 1990.206.
Henry Marcel, “Quelques Oeuvres Inedits de Philippe Roland,” Gazette des Beaux Arts (1901, Part I): 177-189 (illustration p. 182).
West, Alison. From Pigalle to Préault: Neoclassicism and the Sublime in French Sculpture, 1760-1840 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Draper, James David. “Philippe-Laurent Roland in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” in Metropolitan Museum Journal, volume 27, 1992, p. 129-147.
________________. “L'art français au Metropolitan. Les terres cuites néo-classiques,” in Connaissance des arts, no 467 (January 1991): 91-99.
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