Busts of French enlightenment thinkers by Houdon star at US auction
Two market-fresh marble busts of 18th century luminaries by a famous French sculptor with a detailed historic provenance and very attractively pitched estimates were propelled to multi-estimate prices totalling $1.25m at a US auction last week.
The busts portray Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Geneva-born philosopher and writer, and the naturalist …