Saturday, October 31, 2020

Portrait Sculptures - 1850-1900

Benjamin Cheverton
William Huntington
ca. 1850
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous German Artist
Bust of a Youth
(after Michelangelo's Daniel)
ca. 1850
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Ernst Julius Hähnel
Posthumous Bust of Beethoven
ca. 1850
marble
Royal Academy of Music, London

Thomas Woolner
Death Mask of Joseph Mallord William Turner
1851
plaster
Tate Britain

John Bailey
Queen Victoria
1855
marble
Government Art Collection, London

I lived on Dread –
To Those who know
The stimulus there is
In Danger – Other impetus
Is numb – and vitalless –

As 'twere a Spur – upon the Soul –
A Fear will urge it where
To go without the spectre's aid
Were challenging Despair

– Emily Dickinson (1862)

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
La Capresse des Colonies
1861
bronze and marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Copeland & Garrett, Stoke-on-Trent
Alexandra, Princess of Wales 
wearing the Thebes Jewel

1863
porcelain
British Museum

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Mary, Queen of Scots
ca. 1860-70
terracotta
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Palace of the Legion of Honor)

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Eugénie Maria Wynne
1875
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Miss Helen Ionides
ca. 1879
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Mary Grant
Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley
1877
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Paul Gauguin
Emil Gauguin, the Artist's Son
ca. 1877-78
marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Aristide Fontana
Bust of a Young Woman
1887
marble
Guildhall Museum, Rochester, Kent

Auguste Rodin
Madame Vicuña
1887
bronze
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Auguste Rodin
Mrs Russell (Mariana Mattioco della Torre)
1888
bronze
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York