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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Alliot, Lucien Charles Edouard,     Cellarius, Charles L.,     Figure group -- Family     Ethnic -- French     Homage -- Emery, Mary M.     Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Mariemont     Sculpture

A Family Sculpture, (sculpture). Artist:  Alliot, Lucien Charles Edouard, 1877-1967, sculptor. Cellarius, Charles L., architect. Title:  A Family Sculpture, (sculpture). Dates:  1929. Dedicated Nov. 16, 1929. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Figures: French limestone; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  (Left figure group:) approx. 55 x 26 x 47 in. (Center figure group:) approx. 84 x 67 x 34 in. (Right figure group:) 60 x 26 x 47 in. Inscription:  L. Alliot (Rear of center figure group:) L'ORIGINAL/DE CE MONUMENT/A LA VILLE DE/PARIS signed Description:  Three figure groups atop a u-shaped exedra base. Depicted are French peasants -- a father, mother and child standing in the center; at one end of the U-shaped exedra, a grandmother with a child standing in her lap; and at the other end, a grandfather with a young child seated in his lap. Subject:  Figure group -- Family Ethnic -- French Homage -- Emery, Mary M. Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Mariemont Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Village of Mariemont, 6907 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, Ohio 45227 Located Dale Park, Plainville Road & Wooster Pike, Mariemont, Ohio Remarks:  IAS files contain copies of Parks, Warren Wright, "The Mariemont Story, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Creative Writers & Pub., 1967, pg. 108-110), and Giglierano, Jeffery J., and Deborah A. Overmyer, "The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years," Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988. The monument and the Carillon Tower, in Dale Park, were both given in memory of Mary Emery one of the founders of Mariemont. Reportedly, while in Paris, a "Mr. Livingood" saw a clay model by the French sculptor done for the city of Paris. That statue was never ordered and Mr. Livingood was permitted to have the group made and shipped to Mariemont with the stipulation that an inscription be added, even though the piece was never made for Paris. The base of the statue was fabricated in Cincinnati. The work was unveiled and dedicated on the same day as the Carillon Tower, Nov. 16, 1929. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1992. Parks, Warren Wright, "The Mariemont Story, A National Exemplar in Town Planning," Cincinnati, Ohio: Creative Writers & Publishers, 1967, pg. 108-110. Giglierano, G., & D. Overmyer, "Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years," Cincinnati, Ohio: The Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988, pg. 544. Illustration:  Image on file. Parks, Warren Wright, "The Mariemont Story," Cincinnati, Ohio: Creative Writers & Pub., 1967, pg. 109. 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 OH000031   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture OH000031 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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