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Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Fame
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Fame

Artist Antoine Coysevox (French, 1640-1720)
Dateafter 1702
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 24 in. (61 cm)
ClassificationsEuropean art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2041A
Terms
  • Allegory
  • Woman
  • Horse
  • Pegasus
  • Mythology
  • Greek mythology
  • Louis XIV
  • Bronze
  • Baroque
  • Lyons, France
  • Paris
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On view
DescriptionThis is a bronze female figure of Fame blowing upon her horn while sitting aloft on the winged Pegasus. This is a table sized bronze sculpture of Pegasus and Fame. Pegasus's forelegs are in the air, with mane long and loose, and is ready for flight, bearing the personification of Fame. Fame's clothes are easy, flowing draperies. She blows a trumpet announcing the fame of the King of France to the heavens. The central strut that supports the weight of the ascending horse bears the same imagery as Mercury's: it shows Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom entrusted with the female personification of France to the King Louis XIV.

Label TextAntoine Coysevox French, 1640–1720 Fame, after 1702 Bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2041a
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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