French school of the 19th century Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Armenian costume Bronze bust with brown patina. H. 18 cm, on a pink marble base H. 10 cm Related works : - Attributed to Edme-Etienne-François Gois, known as Gois fils (1765-1836) and or Etienne Pierre Adrien Gois père (1731-1823), Rousseau debout en habit arménien, 1794-1795, terracotta, H. 38.5 cm, Abbaye de Chaalis, Musée Jacquemart-André, inv. MJAC-Sc.-n°476 ; - Allan Ramsay, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1766, oil on canvas, H. 74.9 x W. 64.8 cm, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, inv. NG 820 ; - Louis-Jacques Cathelin d'après Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Jean-Jacques Rousseau en costume d'Arménien, etching and burin, Paris, BNF, Département des estampes et de la Photographie. Related literature: Guilhem Scherf, Séverine Daroussat, Jean-Jacques Rousseau et son image sculptée, cat. exp., Domaine de Vizille, musée de la Révolution française, March 2-June 4, 2012, Lyon, Fage ed. 2012. Most of Rousseau's late portraits are executed after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour's pastel, created when the writer was forty. Rousseau demanded that the engravers and sculptors who drew inspiration from the pastel depict him in Armenian costume: "On the clarification that your engraver requests, you will please tell him that I wear in all seasons a bonnet trimmed with a fur about four or five inches high, sometimes sable, sometimes petit gris, Tartarian lamb, and so on. As for clothing, the Dolman or under-dress is always plain, the Caffetan or over-dress is plain even in summer, but for winter I have a double one trimmed with Siberian fox, and the bonnet stuffed with the same" (correspondence with Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne, October 15, 1763).