Madame Noblet
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Dr. Louis Sylvain Noblet and his wife, Anne Loustau-Noblet, collected Rosso’s sculpture. In keeping with the artist’s practice of reworking earlier material at a later date, this plaster is the third version. Here, Rosso left visible fingerprints and wide spatula marks on the surface, a decision that glorifies the process of working with raw material and wresting a new representation from an unformed whole. The proper left side of the sitter’s face catches the light strongly, while the other side falls deeply into shadow, emphasizing the unique viewpoint from which Rosso intended the sculpture to be seen.
Artwork Details
- Title: Madame Noblet
- Artist: Medardo Rosso (Italian, Turin 1858–1928 Milan)
- Date: 1897 (model) / third version made after 1914
- Geography: Country of Origin Italy
- Medium: Gesso
- Dimensions: 25 3/8 × 20 11/16 × 17 15/16 in. (64.5 × 52.5 × 45.5 cm)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Museo Medardo Rosso
- Rights and Reproduction: Image courtesy Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio, Italy
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art