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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Polyhymnia or Tanagra Figure Statuette
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Polyhymnia or Tanagra Figure Statuette

Artist Amalric Walter (French, 1870 - 1959)
Manufacturer Daum & Cie
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1905-1906
MediumPâte de verre
DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
InscribedImpressed on bottom: "DAUM [mark -- see card] Nancy"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6562
Not on view
DescriptionSculpture showing tanagra figure of a woman with flowing robes leaning on a pedestal of irregular oblong blocks. (Polyhymnia-one of the nine muses-This is a copy of the antique marble in the Louvre, Paris). Made of pate de verre brown shading to buff at top. Classical style. Inspired by Tanagra figures. Monochromatic.

Published ReferencesNoel Daum, LA PATE DE VERRE (Paris: Editions Denoel, 1984), ill. 132.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Georges Despret
ca. 1906
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
ca. 1920
Scanned from a transparency, then color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Georges Despret
ca. 1906
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
ca. 1920
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Amalric Walter
ca. 1922-1927
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Georges Despret
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
ca. 1920-1925
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter