Louis-Auguste MalempréFrance
Alice
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, États-Unis
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About the sculpture
The Alice named on the base of this bust refers to the sitter, Alice Pike Barney, an artist, playwright, and art patron who lived in Washington. On a trip to Rome at age seventeen, she met the sculptor Louis-Auguste Malempre at an exhibition of his marble portrait busts. He invited her to his studio for a small party and she commissioned him to do a portrait of her. The sculptor engraved small dots and lines, called stippling, to create the decorative lace at the top of her dress.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1952.13.85
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