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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
La Cothurne [Tragic Pose from Le Jeu d'escharpe (The Scarf Dance)]
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

La Cothurne [Tragic Pose from Le Jeu d'escharpe (The Scarf Dance)]

Artist Agathon Léonard (French, b. Belgium, 1841 - 1923)
Manufacturer Susse Frères
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1900
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
InscribedSigned "A. Leonard" on skirt. With foundry mark of "Susse Frères, Paris".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.3042
Not on view
Published ReferencesIngelore Böstge and Emmanuelle Héran, "Agathon Léonard: Le Geste Art Nouveau", ©2003, pp. 51, 59, 66-67 for illustrations of the model in variant sizes and mediums. Jessica Goldring and Benjamin Macklowe et al, "Dynamic Beauty Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris" The Studley Press, Dalton, MA,© 2011, p. 197 "Agathon Léonard : le geste Art nouveau," pgs. 40-75 "Susse frères : 150 years of sculpture," pg. 64
Scanned from a slide by Jimmy Brown.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Alessandro Vittoria
1525-1608
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
after 1912
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Ferdinand Liebermann
ca. 1910
Image scanned from slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Girolamo Campagna
ca. 1600
Cleaned by Ed Pollard-2014.
Daniel Chester French
modeled 1914
Scanned from a slide by Jimmy Brown.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Alessandro Vittoria
16th century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2012.
James Pradier
ca. 1852
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Georges Flamand (active 1895-1920)
ca. 1900
Image scanned from slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Girolamo Campagna
ca. 1600
Image scanned from a transparency.
Aristide Maillol
ca. 1925