Gallery Talk at Rienzi: Svres Busts

Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts, MFAH presents a Gallery Talk at Rienzi: Sèvres Busts. Presented by Misty Flores, curatorial assistant, Rienzi.

In this month’s Gallery Talk at Rienzi, Misty Flores discusses a recently acquired pair of Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory busts, which depict exquisitely realized portraits of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

About Gallery Talks at Rienzi
Each month, Rienzi highlights a great work of art in its collection. Gallery talks are presented by Museum curators, conservators, and librarians.

Pictured: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, after a model by Louis-Simon Boizot, Bust of Louis XVI and Bust of Marie Antoinette, c. 1785, porcelain, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Rienzi Collection, Museum purchase funded by the Rienzi Society, Jas Gundry, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Reckling III in honor of Dr. Marjorie Horning and Mrs. Rosanette Cullen, and Lucy J. Currie in memory of Mary Ellen Carey..