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Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,
Portrait female -- Rohr, Eva
Literature -- Goethe
Literature -- Gounod
Literature -- Character
Sculpture
Eva Rohr (1845-1916), (sculpture).
Artist:
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.
Title:
Eva Rohr (1845-1916), (sculpture).
Dates:
1872.
Medium:
Marble.
Dimensions:
18 5/8 x 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (47.31 x 23.5 x 16.51 cm).
Inscription:
(On front of pedestal base:) I'm neither/Lady neither fair/And home I can/go without your care/Faust (On left shoulder:) Aug St Gaudens/ROMA/1872 signed
Description:
Eva Rohr is depicted in the costume of Marguerite in Charles Francois Gounod's "Faust" (after the poem by Goethe). The young woman gazes down, her head lowered, her hair in long braids.
Subject:
Portrait female -- Rohr, Eva -- Bust
Literature -- Goethe -- Faust
Literature -- Gounod -- Faust
Literature -- Character -- Marguerite
Object Type:
Sculpture
Owner:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 1990.317
Provenance:
Gift of Smith, Allan H., 1990.
References:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.
Tolles, Thayer, ed., "American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 247.
Tolles, Thayer, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," New York: NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, pg. 9, no. 5.
Greenthal, Kathryn, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 70.
Illustration:
Tolles, Thayer, ed., "American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 247.
Greenthal, Kathryn, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 70.
Tolles, Thayer, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," New York: NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, pg. 9.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS 36120045
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