Préault, AugusteFrancia, 1809–1879Silence
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Art Institute of Chicago
Sala220Chicago, Stati Uniti
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- Verificato
- 6 ore fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 19 ago 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
About the sculpture
Auguste Préault created this roundel (a composition with a circular format) for the tomb of Jacob Roblès in Père-Lachaise, a Parisian cemetery. Departing from more conventional, comforting funerary imagery of the period—portraits of the deceased or melancholy images of mourning—Préault instead modeled a stark evocation of death. Here, a frail finger is raised to the lips of a deeply shrouded and skeletal face with heavy-lidded eyes, perhaps marking the frontier between life and death. The sculpture met with immediate acclaim upon its first exhibition and became an icon of Romanticism.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 2000.46
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Fonti
- Art Institute of Chicago: the museum's own open data · acquisita 6 giorni fa
- Immagine: Art Institute of Chicago — CC0
