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David La Touche (Irish Huguenot Banker)

David La Touche (Irish Huguenot Banker)

Maker (Flemish, active in England and Ireland, died 1780)
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Date1775-1780
Mediummarble
Dimensionsoverall: 26 x 20 1/2 x 11 in. (66 x 52.1 x 27.9 cm.) base: 50 1/2 x 14 3/16 x 14 1/4 in. (128.3 x 36 x 36.2 cm.)
DescriptionThis bust depicts the businessman David La Touche, who made his fortune in Dublin in the early eighteenth century.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On view
Label TextThe sculptor has depicted his subject in a so-called négligé cap—worn for home or informal business—and with his coat buttoned haphazardly, giving the subject a relaxed or unpretentious quality. Trained in London, Nost moved to Dublin in 1750 where he would have met La Touche, whose Huguenot (French Protestant) family fled Catholic France to become a wealthy banking family in Ireland.
Object number67.54
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