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Gallery 700 - The Charles Engelhard Court

Part of The American Wing

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  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra

    William Wetmore Story (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1819–1895 Vallombrosa)

    Date: 1858, carving 1869
    Accession Number: 88.5a–d

  • Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial
    Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial

    Daniel Chester French (American, Exeter, New Hampshire 1850–1931 Stockbridge, Massachusetts)

    Date: 1906–8, carving 1912–15
    Accession Number: 15.75

  • Boy and Duck
    Boy and Duck

    Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York City 1863–1937 New York City)

    Date: 1895–96, cast 1901
    Accession Number: 22.61

  • Hiawatha
    Hiawatha

    Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

    Date: 1871–72, carving 1874
    Accession Number: 2001.641

  • California
    California

    Hiram Powers (American, Woodstock, Vermont 1805–1873 Florence)

    Date: 1850–55, carving 1858
    Accession Number: 72.3

  • The Sun Vow
    The Sun Vow

    Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, Chelsea, Massachusetts 1866–1947 Long Island, New York)

    Date: 1899, cast 1919
    Accession Number: 19.126

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Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian, Florence ca. 1432–1498 Rome), Study for an Equestrian Monument, ca. 1482–83
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Gems of European Lace, ca. 1600–1920
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 Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens
Extravagant Inventions - The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens
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Faking It - Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
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 After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age
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Card No. 8, from the advertising card series "Cabinet Photos, Allen & Ginter" (H807, Type 2), issued by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights Cigarettes
"A Sport for Every Girl" - Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick
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Photo of Mr. Lam, courtesy of The Family of Sau-Wing Lam
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The marble sculptures installed directly in front of the facade of the Branch Bank of the United States were created by a group of mid-nineteenth-century expatriate artists who practiced their art in Italy. Based in Florence and Rome, these professional sculptors enjoyed access to talented craftsmen and carvers, an abundant supply of statuary marble, and the inspiration of classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art. They modeled narrative subjects inspired by mythology, literature, and history, in a smooth, idealized style. While Randolph Rogers's Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii drew its theme from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Hiram Powers's California was inspired by the California Gold Rush that began in 1848.

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By the late nineteenth century, bronze surpassed marble as the medium of choice for a generation of American sculptors trained in Parisian academies. These artists worked in a cosmopolitan Beaux-Arts style that emphasized a mastery of the human form, expressive realism, and fluid surface modeling. Bronze was ideally suited to capture every nuanced detail. Sculptors continued to select time-tested subjects and expanded their repertoire to include such contemporary themes as the American Indian or the European traveling gypsy.

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