Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937)

'Bacchante and Infant Faun'

細節

Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937)
'Bacchante and Infant Faun'
inscribed 'F. MacMonnies 1893' and impressed with the Jaboeuf & Rouard foundry seal (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high

出版

J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculputre: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 131, illustration of another example
M. Smart and E. A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame, The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies with a Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, p. 292, no. 30, illustration on another example

拍品專文

One of MacMonnies' most critically acclaimed and controversial models, Bacchante and Infant Faun was conceived in 1893 as a life-size bronze to be placed in the courtyard of Charles McKim's recently completed Boston Public Library building. Rejected by conservative Bostonians for its "drunken abandon" and "wanton nudity," the statue was presented by the architect to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1897. Reductions in various sizes were cast by both French and American foundries.