# Bust of Samuel Bernard [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COUSTOU, Guillaume I]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Marble, height 96 cm ## Commentary Bust of Samuel Bernard c. 1727 Marble, height 96 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Guillaume Coustou was a distinguished member of a prominent French dynasty of sculptors. The gardens of Versailles and other châteaux provided this family with numerous opportunities for work. Along with garden and palace decorations came commissions to create portraits of the estate owners. A fine example of Guillaume Coustou's portraits is his bust of the wealthy banker and important artistic patron Samuel Bernard, shown with wind-blown cravat and proudly wearing the order of the Saint-Michel, still vigorous and tough, even calculating, in his old age. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Nicolas Coustou]() - [Bust of Samuel Bernard \(detail\)]() - [Bust of Samuel Bernard]() - [Daphne]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi \(detail\)]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Horse Tamer from Marly-le-Roi]() - [Louis XIII]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()