Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Fontaine de Vénus (Fountain of Venus) 1756 Oil on canvas, 233 x 215 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lighthearted, erotic decorative schemes remained popular among the French aristocracy throughout the 1700s. In this painting, part of the…
Donatello (1386-1466) Il martirio di San Sebastiano (The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian) c.1460 Bronze, 26 x 24 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris This bronze plaquette was already famous when it entered the Edouard André Collection. A masterpiece by the sculptor Donatello, the perspective…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard au chat (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat) c.1924 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 111 cm Petit Palais, Paris In the center of a room cluttered with paintings, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) sits on a chair…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Femme accroupie (Crouching woman) c.1884–1885 Patinated plaster, 37.5 x 24.5 x 38.5 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine © Musée Camille Claudel, photo by Marco Illuminati Crouching Woman was created around 1884–1885 by Camille Claudel, then in her early twenties.…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Étude pour La France ou Saint Georges (Study for France or Saint George) c.1902–1903 Bronze, 49.3 x 44 x 37.8 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine © Musée Camille Claudel, photo by Yves Bourel Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin shared their…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) La Petite Châtelaine (Little Chatelaine) 1892–1893 Patinated plaster, 32.3 x 28.9 x 21.2 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine © Musée Camille Claudel, photo by Marco Illuminati During the summer of 1892, Camille Claudel, while staying at the Château de…
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Arlequin (Harlequin) 1917 Carved and painted plaster, 54 x 33 x 25.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This standing figure is the only sculpture that Juan Gris ever made. The polychrome sculpture is balanced on a protruding wedge-shaped slab…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Main de Rodin avec une figure féminine (Hand of Rodin with a Female Figure) 1917 Plaster, 22.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Pierre Puvis de Chavannes modeled c.1890, cast c.1910 Bronze, 53.3 × 50.8 × 31.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cast by Alexis Rudier (French) Rodin neither selected his male and female sitters in the same way, nor…
Arp, Jean (1886-1966) Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt (Sculpture to be Lost in the Forest) 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Bronze, 9 × 22.2 × 154 cm, 6 × 12 × 10 cm and 6.5 × 5.5 × 9.3 cm Tate…