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 |