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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007
Figure of a Woman (La Cothurne)
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007

Figure of a Woman (La Cothurne)

Artist Agathon Léonard (French, b. Belgium, 1841 - 1923)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1900
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 20 in. (50.8 cm)
InscribedIncised on back of skirt: "A Léonard/Sclp".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number83.405
On View
Not on view
DescriptionArt Nouveau gilt bronze sculpture of a figure of a woman from a series called "jeu de l'échape". Figure of a woman in a heavily pleated high-waisted dress with her right arm raised.

Label TextAgathon Léonard French, b. Belgium, 1841–1923 Figure of a Woman (La Cothurne), ca. 1900 Gilded bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.405
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Agathon Léonard
ca. 1900
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
D. Marchand
ca. 1900
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2017.
Elie Nadelman
ca. 1916-18
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 170-116 B.C.E.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2023.
Tiffany Studios
ca. 1910-14
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Peter Tereszczuk
ca. 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
ca. 1890
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
William Christmas Codman
1904
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Frederick William MacMonnies
modeled ca. 1906-07, cast by 1918