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The Bather

1896, cast 1904
Not on view
While he was in Paris, Brooks modeled and cast this statuette of a young boy atop a rock bracing himself to gauge the temperature of the water below. The subject is presented in an animated moment, and, in keeping with the artist’s Beaux-Arts training, with a composition of textural contrast among water, rock, and flesh. At the Paris Salon of 1896, Brooks exhibited a plaster statue titled “Ah! C'est froid,” probably the model for a proposed lifesize bronze.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Bather
  • Artist: Richard Edwin Brooks (American, Braintree, Massachusetts 1865–1919 Washington, D.C.)
  • Date: 1896, cast 1904
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: 23 x 11 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (58.4 x 28.9 x 26.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911
  • Object Number: 11.103.1
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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