Sunday, January 5, 2020

Ottocento Caryatids

John Mossman, Daniel MacGregor Ferguson and William Mossman Jr
Caryatids
1875-77
freestone relief figures
Granville Street, Glasgow

Anonymous Russian Photographer
Plasterwork Caryatids
(Sysoev House, Pechatnikov Lane, Moscow)
constructed in 1896
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Édouard Baldus
Caryatid by Jules Cavalier
(Decoration of the Louvre)
ca. 1852-57
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Édouard Baldus
Caryatid by Jules Cavalier
(Decoration of the Louvre)
ca. 1852-57
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Édouard Baldus
Caryatids by Pierre-Charles Simart
(Decoration of the Louvre)
ca. 1852-57
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Édouard Baldus
Caryatids by Pierre-Charles Simart
(Decoration of the Louvre)
ca. 1852-57
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Caryatids of the Four Continents
1867
plaster
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

from Jerusalem

The Four Living Creatures, Chariots of Humanity, Divine, Incomprehensible,
In beautiful Paradises expand.  These are the Four Rivers of Paradise
And the Four Faces of Humanity, fronting the Four Cardinal Points
Of Heaven, going forward, forward irresistible from Eternity to Eternity.

– William Blake (ca. 1820)

Felice Giani
Four Caryatids
ca. 1800-1820
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Giani
Five Caryatids
ca. 1800-1820
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

James Anderson
Caryatid
(Vatican Museums, Rome)
1859
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous German Photographer
Caryatid
(Erechtheum, Athens)
1896
collotype
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
Caryatid
(Erechtheum, Athens)
1842
daguerreotype
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Auguste Rodin
Fallen Caryatid
ca. 1883
cast terracotta statuette
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Auguste Rodin
Fallen Caryatid
ca. 1883
marble statuette
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston