ahtr eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sculpture
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Claude Michel, known as Clodion. The Intoxication of Wine, c. 1780–90, terracotta,
height 23”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Source)
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788–92, marble, height 6’2”.
State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia. (Source)
Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus Victrix, 1808, mixed marble with gilding,
length 6’7”. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
François Rude, Departure of the Volunteers (The Marseillaise), 1833–6, limestone,
height approx. 42’. Arc de Triomphe, Place de l’Étoile, Paris.
Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains, 1862, marble, height 48”.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conneticut.
Edgar Degas, The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, 1880,
tinted bronze, cotton skirt, satin hair ribbon, wood base, height 38.5”.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Source)
Jules Dalou, The Grand Peasant, 1898–1902, bronze, height 77.5”.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. (Source)
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