Samples of French Sculpture Contemporary with Victorian Work

General

• Nude and Other Figurative Sculpture
  • Female Nudes: Sitting, Crouching, Kneeling, or Reclining

Individual Sculptors

• Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887)
• Auguste Jean-Baptiste Clésinger (1814-1883)
• Aime-Jules Dalou (1838-1902)
• Eugène Delaplanche
• Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie, 1845-1916
• Augustine-Jean Moreau-Vauthier
• August Rodin
• Alexandre Schoenewerk (1820-1885)

Bibliography

[see also bibliographies included with materials about individual sculptors]

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Metamporphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture. Ed. Jeanne L. Wasserman. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Press, 1975.

Although this volume discusses only French and American sculpture -- it appeared before the rival of interest in Victorian sculpture -- its discussions of technical matters, conceptions of originality, and other issues involved with creating art in multiple copies illuminate British work as well.

Pingeot, Anne. The Musée d'Orsay: Sculpture. London: Scala, 1998.

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

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