Painting & Sculpture

1899

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 766

Located at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street, the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial was unveiled in 1898 in honor of Hunt (1827–1895), the architect who designed the central facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The memorial is flanked by allegories of the sister arts, for which the Met owns the two sketch models. In this work, Painting and Sculpture grasps a sculptor’s mallet as well as a palette and reduced model after Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon. The other sketch model, Architecture (2013.135.1), holds a representation of Hunt’s Administration Building for the Columbian Exposition.

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Provenance

Title: Painting & Sculpture
Artist: Daniel Chester French (American, Exeter, New Hampshire 1850–1931 Stockbridge, Massachusetts)
Founder: Cast by Roman Bronze Works
Date: 1899
Culture: American
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 12 1/4 × 4 1/8 × 2 3/4 in. (31.1 × 10.5 × 7 cm)
Credit Line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2013
Object Number: 2013.135.2
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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