Diana
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière, French, 1831 - 1900
Thiébaut Frères Fondeurs, Paris
about 1882
Bronze
Overall: 18 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (47.6 × 19.7 × 19.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940
S.986.52
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on top of base: A. Falguiere; Foundry mark: THIEBAUT FRERES/ FONDEURS/ PARIS [in circular cachet on top of base)
Course History
WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Aspects of Sculpture: the Paul Magriel Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, July 28-September 15, 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 22-October 27, 1985, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, November 7-December 15, 1985, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1985-February 16, 1986, no. 58.
Emulating Antiquity: Nineteenth-century European Sculpture, Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-February 16, 2020.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 1992-June 10, 1995.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 3, 1999 - January 14, 2008.
Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.
The Romantics to Rodin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, no. 130.
Publication History
Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, THe Romantics to Rodin, French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with George Braziller, Inc., 1980, no. 130.
John T. Spike, Aspects of Sculpture: the Paul Magriel Collection, Florence, Italy: Artigraf, 1985, p. 69, no. 58.
Provenance
James Holderbaum (1920-2011), date unknown; Paul Magriel (1906-1990), date unknown; Jane (1922-2007) and W. David Dance (1917-2012), date unknown; given to present collection, 1986.
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