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George Washington

John Rogers American
1875
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 719
With the nation’s approaching centennial, the market-savvy Rogers began modeling a statuette of George Washington (1732-1799) in spring 1875. The careful detailing of Washington's garb suggests the artist made use of the many drawings he executed in 1871 and 1872 in preparation for the unrealized group, “Camp Fires of the Revolution.” In pose, costume, and likeness, Rogers’s “Washington” owes much to Jean Antoine Houdon's marble statue of Washington (ca. 1788-91) that was installed in the Virginia State House in Richmond in 1796. "Washington" was patented on October 19, 1875, and was included in the large display of Rogers’s work at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The statuette, devoid of Rogers’s customary narrative detail, did not sell well and was dropped from his catalogue of available statuary by 1888.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: George Washington
  • Artist: John Rogers (American, Salem, Massachusetts 1829–1904 New Canaan, Connecticut)
  • Date: 1875
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: 29 × 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 in., 64 lb. (73.7 × 26.7 × 24.1 cm, 29 kg)
  • Credit Line: Gift of William Leander Post, through Mrs. Charles J. Post, 1944
  • Object Number: 44.75
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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