Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Plaster

Works of Art (10)

Bust of a Young Girl, identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840), 18th century (ca. 1779–81), After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Plaster (42.23.2)
Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), after a model of 1778, After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.2a)
Bust of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), after a model of 1778, After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French, Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.1a)
Davida Johnson Clark, 1886, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Plaster, shellac (2003.303)
The Horses of Anahita or The Flight of Night, ca. 1848–50; this cast, by 1880, William Morris Hunt (American), Plaster, tinted (80.12)
Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome, 1811, Joseph-Antoine Romagnési (French), Plaster, painted to resemble yellowish stone; green marbleized wood (frame only) (27.191.2)
Richard Watson Gilder, Helena de Kay Gilder, and Rodman de Kay Gilder, 1879; this cast, ca. 1883–84, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Plaster (2002.445)
Robert Fulton (1765–1815), ca. 1803, Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), France (Paris), Painted plaster (1989.329)
Seated Voltaire (after the original model of 1778), 18th century (?), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Plaster, tinted to imitate terracotta (52.211)
Two Hands, modeled and cast at an unknown date, Auguste Rodin (French), Plaster (12.12.18,.17)

Thematic Essays (4)