European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century

by Ruth Butler; Suzanne Lindsay; Alison Luchs; Douglas Lewis; Cynthis J. Mills

• ISBN13: 9780894682537
• ISBN10: 0894682539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-17
• Publisher: Natl Gallery of Art

Summary

The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin, among them "The Kiss," and Honore Daumier's celebrated portrait busts. These works, as well as sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Paul Gauguin, and Theodore Gericault, are examined in unprecedented depth, shedding new light on many issues of scholarship. An essay about Rodin and Mrs. John W. Simpson, the artist's most important American patron, and a selection of letters between the Simpsons and Rodin chronicle this artist-patron relationship. Works by American sculptors of the period--Bela Lyon Pratt, William Rimmer, Augustus Saint- Gaudens, and Henry Merwin Shrady--are also included here.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction and Notes to the Reader	xiii
CATALOGUE	1	(432)
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi	3	(5)
Antoine-Louis Barye	8	(44)
Auguste-Nicolas Cain	52	(4)
Antonio Canova	56	(8)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux	64	(16)
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse	80	(7)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu	87	(5)
Joseph Chinard	92	(5)
Aime-Jules Dalou	97	(20)
Honore Daumier	117	(96)
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers	213	(17)
Christophe Fratin	230	(4)
Paul Gauguin	234	(18)
Theodore Gericault	252	(13)
Sir Alfred Gilbert	265	(7)
Johannes Gotz	272	(4)
Pierre-Eugene-Emile Hebert	276	(10)
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier	286	(6)
Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie	292	(6)
James Pradier	298	(5)
Auguste Rodin	303	(130)
AMERICAN SCULPTURE	433	(42)
Bela Lyon Pratt	434	(6)
William Rimmer	440	(13)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens	453	(12)
Henry Merwin Shrady	465	(10)
Technical Appendix	475	(6)
Abbreviations	481	(2)
Bibliography	483	(18)
Index	501	(20)
Concordances	521