print
- Museum number
- 1927,1001.3.1-3
- Title
- Object: L'hémicycle de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- Description
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Frieze-like composition reproducing the fresco executed by Delaroche for the hemicycle at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris: classical setting with, at centre, three semi-draped male figures (Ictinus, Apelles, Phidias) representing the three major arts, seated enthroned at the top of some stairs upon which are seated four female figures symbolizing Greek art, Roman art, Gothic art, and Renaissance art; at the bottom of the stairs, crouched nude figure personifying Fame giving out laurel wreaths; on each side of this central group are depicted major figures of art history; at left, nineteen painters and fourteen sculptors; at right, thirteen architects and twenty-one painters; proof before letter, printed from three separate plates; left plate and central plate joined together. 1847/52
Etching and engraving, on chine collé
- Production date
- 1847-1852
- Dimensions
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Height: 540 millimetres (central plate)
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Height: 542 millimetres (left plate)
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Height: 539 millimetres (right plate)
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Width: 1081 millimetres
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Width: 1082 millimetres
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Width: 568 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For explanatory key, see 1927,1001.3.4.
For comment on original composition, see cat. exhib. 'Paul Delaroche, un peintre dans l'Histoire' (Nantes, Montpellier 1999-2000), p.105-129. Also see Stephen Bann's 'Delaroche, History Painted' (London 1997), p.200-227.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- Given by Miss E Q Henriquez
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,1001.3.1-3
