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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S8
People
Daniel Chester French, American (Exeter, NH 1850 - 1931 Glendale, MA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Title
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1879
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303586

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
60 x 31 x 23 cm (23 5/8 x 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: right shoulder: D.C. French SC./1879

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry Lee and Henry L. Higginson to Harvard College, 1883
Object Number
S8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 16
  • Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 395
  • Michael Richman, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, exh. cat., National Trust for Historic Preservation / Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1976), pp. 51-55, ill.
  • "Emerson Among the Eccentrics", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, July 1996)

Exhibition History

  • Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/04/1976 - 01/10/1977; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 02/11/1977 - 04/17/1977; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 06/15/1977 - 08/28/1977; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/30/1977 - 11/30/1977

Verification Level

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