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A Young Woman of Trastevere (Romaine du Trastévère, 25 Ans),

French sculptor Charles Henri Joseph Cordier was fascinated with combining ethnography and art to create harmonious examples of beauty. As chief sculptor of the Natural History Museum in Paris, Cordier went to Italy and Greece in 1858 to inspect marble for export and to portray the people he encountered. This statue is the […]

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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse was a versatile and prolific French sculptor. Both Auguste Rodin and Jules Dalou, two of the greatest sculptors of the late 1800s (examples of whose works are on view nearby) worked in his studio. Carrier-Belleuse produced commissioned portrait busts and monuments and was particularly known for his work in terra-cotta. This eroticizing bust […]

Portrait of Two Unknown Men,

Jacques-Louis David,

François Rude was one of the leading French sculptors of the Romantic movement and a close friend of the painter Jacques-Louis David. Although the two artists eventually had a falling out, David’s family asked Rude to make a portrait of David after his death in 1825. This terracotta maquette was made in 1826 in preparation […]

Portrait of Sadie Carnot, President of France,

Le Général Bonaparte,

Honoré de Balzac,

Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert specialized in memorial sculptures and portraits of great men. Throughout a successful career, Hébert exhibited at the Salon many times until his death in 1893. Remarkable for its grand dimensions, this terra-cotta portrait pays homage to Honoré de Balzac’s immense literary prestige and physical presence. Hébert cleverly combined a monumental quality with a […]

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent,

Although Dantan executed sculptural decoration for architectural projects, his primary activity was as a portraitist. However, it was for his sculpted caricatures, called portraits chargés (loaded portraits), that the artist became famous. During his lifetime Dantan produced more than 400 portraits chargés, which were executed in plaster so that they would be affordable. The subject […]

Caroline Murat (1782 – 1839),

Eugene Delacroix (1798 – 1863),