Figurative Works at the Chrysler Museum of Art: Works on Paper

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Pietro Antonio Movelli ....Seated Angel



Pietro Antonio Movelli - Study for Resurrection of Our Lord...... undated

Anon..... Titans Fighting

Thomas Pollack Anshutz (1851-1912) Two boys By A Boat ... 1894

Susan Watkins (1875-1913) Three Academic Nude Studies (Above)

Anon...Sketch of a Nude Sunbather ... 1921

Raphael of Urbino ....Genesis 1773

Raffaelino da Reggio - 16th Century .. St. John the Baptist with the Lamb

Peter van der Borcht (1600-1633) Study for St. John

Anon. Nude Bathers ...

Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619) Father Tiber

Leyendecker Magazine Cover

L. Flameno ... Fishwoman Bathing Her Children ... 1881

Jan Muller (1571-1628) (Three prints - Rape of the Sabine Women)

Guercino .... Male Figure Holding a Violin ... 17th Cent.

Guercino (1591-1666) The Martyrdom of St. James .... 1627

Grace Hall ..... Academic Studies .... Late 1890's (above)

Glenna Latimer ... Seated Boy

Gaudenzio Marconi .... Albumen Print Male & Female Nudes ... 1870

Frans Floris (1519-1670) Hercules and Atlas

Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) Standing Female Nude

Clarence Hudson White (1871-1925) Photogravure Camera Work - July 1908 ..Nude Boy

Clarence Hudson White (1871-1925) Boys Wrestling ... Camera Work... July 1908

Biknell ... Nude Women Bathing

Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) Watercolor of Nude Women

Alice Boughton (1865-1943) Camera Work ... 1909

Alfred George Stevens (1817-1875) Study of a Youth ... 1860-65

Figurative Works at the Chrysler Museum of Art: Sculpture and Ceramics

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Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909) - Narcissus ....1896-97

Heinrich Imhof (1798-1869) Eros

Jacques Loysel (1879-1925) Female Nude Bending Over

Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) Trust in God

Peter Stephenson (1823-1860) The Wounded Indian .. 1848-50)

Prosper d'Epinay (1836-1914) Amor Forgiven

Thomas Crawford (1815-1857) Paris Presenting The Golden Apple to Venus ... 1837

Willian Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) Otis Angelo Mygatt ...1874

Willian Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) Leander

William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) Female Nude

Figurative Works at the Chrysler Museum of Art: Bronzes and Metal Works

Today I ran across a valuable Museum Art Resource in the form of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. There are quite a number of figurative works in their online inventory and I culled through those I thought notable. The Museum has a long distinguished history since its founding in 1939 and sponsorship of its founder Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. who presented the bulk of his collection to the city of Norfolk before his death. Their inventory consists of over thirty thousand objects. All of these images posted are courtesy of the Museum for review purposes so please honor any copyright that may be applicable. I will post them in several posts since posting large numbers of illustrations with the editor provided by the Google Blogger can be a pain in the petoot. Here is the first section, other sections will appear above:
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Bronzes and Metal works:
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C. M. Mahiment ... Standing Nude Boy ...undated

Paul Manship (1885-1966) Reclining Female Nude ... 1921

Niccolo Roccatagliata (1593-1636) Male Nude with Grapes

Laurent Guiard (1723-1788) The Flight From Troy ....1766

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) Ugolino and His Sons ... ca. 1870

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) The Genius of the Dance ...recast after 1912

Janet Scudder (1869-1940) Young Diana .. 1911

Herman Atkins MacNeil (1866-1947) The Sun Vow ....1898-99 ...Bronze cast ca. 1925

Fauns with Cornucopias ...16th Cent.

FoundryF. Barbedienne, Paris.... Woman Piper with Dancing Goat...ca.1925

Anon...Dancing Faun With Symbols ...ca. 1900-10

Carl Wilhelm Emil Milles (1875-1955) Two Figures ... ca. 1925

Unsigned...Bronze Male Nude...ca. 1900

August Rodin (1840-1917) The Age of Bronze ...1876

Unknown Artist - 19th Century French School- Standing Semi-Nude Male

I just managed to pick up this nice 19th century (circa 1880) academic drawing of a semi-nude male on eBay France. From the description it comes from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux but does not appear to be signed. Still, a nicely executed drawing.
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Unknown Austrian Artist: Jugendstilbronze - Aus der Quelle trinkender Mann- Out of the Source - Man Drinking

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Caption: Drinking Man
Artist: Adolf Josef Pohl (1872-1938)
Medium: Cast Bronze
Dated: 1910

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Addendum: I have been looking through the reference books I have on Bronze's of the 19th Century trying to identify the artist of this nice bronze (below) and I found a potential artist: Adolf Josef Pohl (1872-1938). He was active during the appropriate time period. He sculpted a somewhat similar small bronze dated 1910 titled "Drinking Man" (see illustration above). There are stylistic similarities, especially how the figure becomes part of the landscape, that lead to to this conclusion. Pohl is a potential answer to this mystery. I will have to wait until the bronze arrives and take a closer look at it under the magnifying glass.
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Surprise.... The dealer accepted my low ball offer and the bronze will be on its way into my collection shortly. I will have to do some investigation and research and see if I can identify the artist. I may even remove it from the base and see it it is signed on the bottom. Who knows it may be signed. It always mystifies me when an artist fails to sign his or her work for posterity. Then again, that would put a lot of researchers out of work. I will re-photograph it when it arrives. I ordered an encyclopedia of European Bronzes from Amazon.com. Perhaps it will have information about this bronze.
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I keep running across these beautiful little desktop bronzes on various sites. When I first saw this quality little bronze online it just screamed Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) in those flowing lines and the subject matter itself. I love the way the figure interacts with the action and the way the musculature of the back interplays with the movement of the rest of composition. I don't know what it is about accomplished artistic craftsmanship that speaks to me when I see a bronze like this but it does. I may take a stab at obtaining it, stay tuned. I'll make the antiques dealer an offer and see if he salutes the flag.
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Caption: Aus de Quelle trinkender Mann - Out of the Source - Man Drinking

Artist: Unknown Austrian Artist

Medium: Cast Bronze, mounted on Marble base

Dated: undated, circa 1900-1910

Valentine Bender (1884-1947) Young Saint John The Baptist (Bronze - Nude Boy)

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This is just an interesting aside that was prompted by a Discovery Channel program I watched recently about the Lost Female Pharaoh of Egypt. I have mentioned the concept of "appropriation" previously wherein an artist "appropriates" some aspect of another artist's work and reinterprets that meaning into something new and his or her own. As I watched the examinations of the various royal mummies I was struck by what indeed denoted "royalty" in a mummy. Dr. Zahi Hawass made a statement that really hit home with me and I thought of this bronze and that Michelangelo's sculpture of David and the pose those figures have taken. According to Dr. Hawass the one thing that denoted "royalty" was the way the mummy was posed. The left arm was drawn up towards the shoulder and the right arm was extended straight down the side of the body. Only "royal" personages were posed like that in antiquity, just like the figure below. Has Valentine Bender posed Saint John in like manner to indicate royalty? Just a curious observation on that discovery.

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Unknown Canadian Artist - Ca. 1890-1920 Standing Nude Boy

This Art Nouveau academic nude of a standing nude boy originated from Toronto, Canada. The artiques dealer had scant information on its origin but insisted it came from a local estate. I was in Toronto to attend a seminar on 19th Century classical painting techniques at a local private Atelier and bought it. I am basing my time estimate on the details of the frame, which to my eye says Art Nouveau. I apologize for the misaligned photographs. The varnish on the surface was shiny and I had to get off to the side to get a decent photograph.
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Caption: Standing Nude Boy

Artist: Unknown (Canadian in Origin)

Medium: Oils on Canvas

Dated: Unsigned and undated (ca. 1890-1920)