Friday, October 30, 2020

Portrait Sculptures - 1800-1850

Jean-Marie Nogaret
Portrait Bust of a Young Woman
1802
terracotta
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Napoleon Bonaparte
ca. 1802
marble
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Antonio Canova
Franz I, Holy Roman Emperor
1805
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Russian Artist
Paul I, Emperor of Russia
ca. 1800-1850
ivory
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Mr. Warp
1816
marble
Tate Britain

Edward Hodges Baily
George Gordon, Lord Byron
ca. 1810-30
marble
Government Art Collection, London

Edward Hodges Baily
Henry Fuseli
1824
marble
National Portrait Gallery, London

François Carlo Antommarchi
Death Mask of Napoleon Bonaparte
modeled 1821, cast 1833
bronze
Art Institute of Chicago

from Canto XXXVI

Where memory liveth,
                it takes its state
Formed like a diafan from light on shade
Which shadow cometh of Mars and remaineth
Created, having a name sensate,
Custom of the soul,
                will from the heart;
Cometh from a seen form which being understood
Taketh locus and remaining in the intellect possible
Wherein hath he neither weight nor still-standing,
Descendeth not by quality but shineth out
Himself his own effect unendingly
Not in delight but in the being aware
Nor can he leave his true likeness otherwhere.

– Ezra Pound (1934)

Thomas Campbell
Portrait Bust of a Lady in Classical Style
1823
marble
Astley Cheetham Art Collection, Manchester

John Gibson
William Bewick
ca. 1827-50
marble
Tate Britain

Samuel Joseph
Posthumous Bust of King George IV
1831
marble
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jean-Pierre Dantan the Younger
Portrait Bust of a Young Woman
1836
marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Swedish Artist
Posthumous Bust of Christina, Queen of Sweden
ca. 1830-50
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

François-Joseph Bosio
Marie-Amélie, Queen of France
1841
marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Neville Northey Burnard
The Right Honourable Charles Buller
1849
plaster
National Trust, Carlyle's House, London