European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues)
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The National Gallerys collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin among them The Kiss and Honor Daumiers celebrated portrait busts. These works as well as sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Paul Gauguin and Theodore Gericault are examined in unprecedented depth shedding new light on many issues of scholarship. An essay about Rodin and Mrs. John W. Simpson the artists most important American patron and a selection of letters between the Simpsons and Rodin chronicle this artist-patron relationship. Works by American sculptors of the period--Bela Lyon Pratt William Rimmer Augustus Saint- Gaudens and Henry Merwin Shrady--are also included here.
