Pax Victrix
Artist
Frederick William MacMonnies
(American, 1863 - 1937)
Manufacturer
Jaboeuf and Rouard
(French)
CultureAmerican
Datemodeled ca. 1906-07, cast by 1918
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 37 3/8 x 14 1/4 x 12 1/8 in. (94.9 x 36.2 x 30.8 cm)
InscribedInscribed on front of pedestal: ;
PAX ;
VICTRIX ;
Inscribed on pedestal, right rear: F. MacMonnies ;
Inscribed on plinth, right rear: JABOEUF ROUARD PARIS
Credit LineGift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase
Object number86.485
On View
On viewLabel TextFrederick William MacMonnies American, 1863–1937 Pax Victrix, modeled ca. 1906–07, cast by 1918 Bronze cast by Jaboeuf & Rouard, Paris, France Frederick MacMonnies proposed “Peace Victorious” to decorate the Palace of Peace in The Hague, Netherlands. Funded by American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the Palace remains home to international courts for justice and arbitration. To express the building’s mission, this statue features a woman preventing a triumphant warrior from further injuring his fallen opponent. Due to budget constraints, no full-size version was produced, and this small bronze remains the only known cast of one of MacMonnies’ most complex designs. Gift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase 86.485 Provenance[Neil Reisner, Scarsdale, N.Y.]; [Post Road Antiques, Larchmont, N.Y., 1977]; James H. Ricau, Piermont, N.Y., 1977; Gift of James H. Ricau and Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 1986. Exhibition History"An Exhibition of Small Bronzes by American Sculptors," The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., March 13-31, 1918. "The Ricau Collection," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., February 26 - April 23, 1989. "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. Published References_Harper's Weekly_ 51 (August 31, 1907), cover (illustrated plaster version). _An Exhibition of Small Bronzes by American Sculptors_, exh. cat., The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, N.Y., no. 38. "Exhibition of Small Bronzes," _Academy Notes_ 13 (April - June 1918), 58, 62. DeWitt M. Lockman, "Interviews with Frederick MacMonnies, N.A. (Jan. 29 and Feb. 16, 1927)," _DeWitt McClellan Lockman Collection of Interviews with American Artists, New-York Historical Society_ 2 vols. (New York, 1927), 2:7. Robert J. Clark, _Frederick MacMonnies and the Princeton Battle Monument, Record of the Art Museum Princeton University_ 43, no. 2 (1984), 19-20, 30. E. Adina Gordon, _Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (1858-1946): Two American Artists at Giverny_, exh. cat., Musée Municipal A.-G. Poulain-Vernon, Vernon, France, 1988, 59, 79, no. 104. ISBN: 2907517104, 0932171192 Mary Smart, _A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies_ (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1996), 215-216, 304. ISBN: 0932087523 E. Adina Gordon, "The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue," Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1997, 474-479. H. Nichols B. Clark, _A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at The Chrysler Museum of Art_ (New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1997), 258-261, no. 67. ISBN: 1555951317 Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 127, no. 77. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6
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