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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- NGAS_130416_012.JPG: Vincenzo Gemito
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1879
- NGAS_130416_028.JPG: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Portrait Relief of Robert Louis Stevenson, model 1887/1888, cast 1902
- NGAS_130416_043.JPG: August Saint-Gaudens
"The Puritan" (Deacon Samuel Chapin), model 1883/1886, cast after 1898
- NGAS_130416_055.JPG: Frederick William MacMonnies
Pan of Rohallion, model 1889-1890
- NGAS_130416_065.JPG: Frederick William MacMonnies
Nathan Hale, model 1889/1890, cast 1890
- NGAS_130416_079.JPG: Auguste Saint-Gaudens
Robert Louis Stevenson, model 1887-1888, cast 1895 or later
- NGAS_130416_088.JPG: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Diana of the Tower, conceived 1892/1893, cast 1899
- NGAS_130416_102.JPG: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Charles Stewart Butler and Lawrence Smith Butler, 1880-1881
- NGAS_130416_112.JPG: August Saint-Gaudens
Samuel Gray Ward, 1881
- NGAS_130416_122.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Lovers, model mid 1880s, cast after 1900
- NGAS_130416_132.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Hand of Rodin with a Female Figure, 1917
- NGAS_130416_143.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Statuette of a Woman, possibly early 20th century
- NGAS_130416_153.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Eve Eating the Apple. c. 1885
- NGAS_130416_165.JPG: Bela Lyon Pratt
Clara and Lizzie, Daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Stattuck, model 1893, cast 1894
- NGAS_130416_173.JPG: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Victory-Peace, c 1905
- NGAS_130416_183.JPG: Jules-Clement Chaplain
Dr. Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918), Physician, 1906
- NGAS_130416_193.JPG: Ovide Yencesse
The Green Mint (Le Frappeur grec), 1920
- NGAS_130416_201.JPG: Karl Goetz
Obverse: Centennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Reverse: Monkey Contemplating a Human Skull in a Landscape
1909
- NGAS_130416_210.JPG: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Twenty Dollar Gold Coin, Liberty, 1907
- NGAS_130416_221.JPG: Alexandre Charpentier
Alexandre-Charles Monod (1843-1921)
Demonstrating a Procedure in the Operating Theatre
1906
- NGAS_130416_233.JPG: Alexandre Charpentier
Painting (La Peinture), 1899
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene Farochon
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Painter, 1867
- NGAS_130416_246.JPG: Louis-Oscar Roty
Michel-Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889), Chemist, Physicist, and Philosopher, 1886
- NGAS_130416_257.JPG: Walter Eberach
The Torpedoing of the Tubantia, 1916
- NGAS_130416_281.JPG: Ludwig Gies
Refugee Family, 1918
- NGAS_130416_291.JPG: Auguste Rodin
VIctoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville, 1913-1914
- NGAS_130416_301.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Kiss (Le Baiser), model 1880-1887, cast c 1898-1902
- NGAS_130416_316.JPG: Aime-Jules Dalou
Alphonse Legros, model c 1876, cast possibly 1879/1920
- NGAS_130416_326.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Katherine Seney Simpson (Mrs. John W. Simpson), 1902-1903
- NGAS_130416_342.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Thinker (Le Penseur), model 1880, cast 1901
- NGAS_130416_353.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Jean d'Aire, model 1884-1889, cast probably early 20th century
- NGAS_130416_363.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Evil Spirits, c 1899
- NGAS_130416_397.JPG: Auguste Rodin
J.B. van Berckelaer, model 1874, carved 1875
- NGAS_130416_413.JPG: Edgar Degas
Head Resting on One Hand, Bust, c 1885/1888
- NGAS_130416_427.JPG: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
possibly with Auguste Rodin
The Abduction of Hippodamia (L'Enlevement d'Hippodamie), model 1877/1879, cast after 1877
- NGAS_130416_461.JPG: Pierre-Eugene-Emile Hebert
Amazon Preparing for Battle (Queen Antiope or Hippolyta?) or Armed Venus, model c 1860/1872, cast by 1882
- NGAS_130416_475.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Figure of a Woman "The Sphinx", model early 1880s, carved 1909
- NGAS_130416_487.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Sirens, model before 1887, cast probably 1900/1920
- NGAS_130416_498.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Woman and Child (originally Premiere Impression d'Amour), model c 1885, carved c. 1900-1901
- NGAS_130416_523.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Morning, 1906
- NGAS_130416_531.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Bust of a Young Girl, 1868
- NGAS_130416_546.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Bust of a Woman, 1875
- NGAS_130416_561.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Thomas Fortune Ryan, 1909-1910
- NGAS_130416_571.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'Airain), model 1875-1876, cast 1898
- NGAS_130416_582.JPG: Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie
Gloria Victis, model c 1874, cast after 1879
- NGAS_130416_592.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Sirens, model before 1887, cast probably 1900/1920
- NGAS_130416_601.JPG: Pierre-Eugene-Emile Hebert
Amazon Preparing for Battle (Queen Antiope or Hippolyta?) or Armed Venus
model c 1860/1872, cast by 1882
- NGAS_130416_611.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Thinker (Le Penseur), model 1880, cast 1901
- NGAS_130416_622.JPG: Sculpture by Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) pushed the conventions of sculpture beyond previously accepted rules of finish and anatomical correctness. His fiercely expressive treatment of the human figure and of sculptural material has led to comparisons with Michelangelo, whose achievements he sought to emulate. At the same time, his broken, roughly finished surfaces have been compared to the impressionists' innovations in painting. He broke new ground in presenting fragmentary figures as complete works of art.
To a greater extent than any artist before him, Rodin authorized the production of his sculptures in a variety of sizes and media (plaster, terracotta, bronze, and marble). He modeled his conceptions in clay or wax with his own hands and then had plaster casts made of them. In a practice customary for his time, Rodin employed specialists who used the plasters to enlarge, reduce, and cast his sculptures in bronze or to carve them in marble.
Rodin's works became to popular that some of them -- including The Thinker, the Kiss, and A Burgher of Calais (Jean d'Aire), all originally designed as parts of complex public monuments -- were veritable best-sellers. Today these are widely disseminated in collections around the world. The examples in the National Gallery of Art, mostly gifts of Mrs. John W. Simpson, are almost exclusively productions from his lifetime.
- NGAS_130416_677.JPG: Herbert Adams
Girl with Water Lilies, 1928
- NGAS_130416_708.JPG: Giacomo Manzu
Vine Branches, 1960
- NGAS_130416_715.JPG: Giacomo Manzu
Sheaves of Wheat, 1960
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