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Barrias, who was noted for his female allegorical figures, produced a fully nude version of this subject in white marble for the Faculty of Medicine at Bordeaux in 1893. Six years later, in 1899, responding to the renewed interest in multicolored sculpture inspired by ancient Greek accounts, he exhibited a draped version at the Paris Salon. It was made of red and gold onyx, malachite, and lapis lazuli. This smaller replica of the 1899 statue was issued by the foundry Susse Frères the same year. A final version in white marble, made in 1902, was acquired by the School of Medicine in Paris.
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27766
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Nature Unvealing Herself before Science
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27766
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title
Nature Unvealing Herself before Science
description
Barrias, who was noted for his female allegorical figures, produced a fully nude version of this subject in white marble for the Faculty of Medicine at Bordeaux in 1893. Six years later, in 1899, responding to the renewed interest in multicolored sculpture inspired by ancient Greek accounts, he exhibited a draped version at the Paris Salon. It was made of red and gold onyx, malachite, and lapis lazuli. This smaller replica of the 1899 statue was issued by the foundry Susse Frères the same year. A final version in white marble, made in 1902, was acquired by the School of Medicine in Paris.
provenance
Susse Frères, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1899
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CC0
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en
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Ivory & Bone
statuettes (statues)
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1
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1
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import
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17 in. (43.2 cm)
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[Signature on top of base] E Barrias[Foundry Mark on top of base] Susse Frères editeurs
Paris[letter] P (next to foundry mark)
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ivory, gilt and oxidixed silver, malachite
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5436
8073
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EAN
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2574
721
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