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The collection of European sculpture and decorative arts contains a wide range of media, spanning from the fifteenth through the early twentieth centuries. A number of major movements and traditions in European art are represented, from the Renaissance to early modernism. One especially strong concentration is French nineteenth-century sculpture, especially works by Carrier-Belleuse, Carpeaux, and Rodin.
Some highlights with entries from the Hood collection catalogue European Art at Dartmouth:
Alexander Archipenko, White Torso, 1916
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Portrait of Jean-Leon Gerome, 1872-75
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Abduction of Hippodamie (L'Enlevement), about 1871
Circle of Hans Krumper, Mars, early 17th century
Henri Laurens, Standing Female Nude (Femme nue debout), 1921
Jacques Lipchitz, Woman Reading (Liseuse), 1919
