Maquette for the Delacroix Monument

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Maquette for the Delacroix Monument

Artist Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902)

Place of OriginFrance

Datemodeled 1885, executed 1902-1905

DimensionsH: 34 3/4 in. (88.3 cm)

Mediumbronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1964.61

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Label TextIn 1884, a group of cultural and political leaders proposed a monument to honor one of France’s greatest artists, Eugène Delacroix (look for the Museum’s two paintings by Delacroix). They chose Aimé-Jules Dalou, a leading French sculptor, to create the over-life-size monument, which is located in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Toledo’s sculpture is a unique bronze cast of the original small plaster model for the full-size monument. Three figures form a vigorous ensemble that swirls upward toward the bust of the celebrated artist. Apollo, God of Poetry and Music (also identified as the Genius of Art) applauds while winged Time, a bearded old man, lifts Fame up to lay the wreath of everlasting glory beneath the bust of Delacroix. Delacroix is depicted with a sense of personality, his neck wrapped in a scarf to guard against catching a cold, a fear he always held.Published ReferencesCaillaux, H., Aimé-Jules Dalou, Paris, 1935, pp. 57-59, 139 (as only bronze cast of the plaster maquette).

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 7, no. 4, repr. p. 106 (also published as handbook).

Davis, Frank, Illustrated London News, April 25, 1964.

Wittmann, Otto, "Treasures at Toledo, Ohio," Apollo, vol. LXXXI, no. 35, January 1965, pp. 28-35.

"New Accessions U.S.A.," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 65, no. 1153, no. 236, p. 59, repr.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, 1966, p. 169, repr. p. 182.

Wittmann, Otto, "Director's Choice," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 512, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 245, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Mallett at Bourdon House Ltd., Sculptures by Jules Dalou, 1964, no. 27, repr. (Foreword, Introduction and Bibliography by A. S. Ciechanowiecki).

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Treasures for Toledo, 1964.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin, 1980-1981, no. 78, pp. 194-196, repr. (cat. entry by J.M. Hunisak).

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. 1998-1999

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Paris: City of Art, November 6, 2009 - March 14, 2010.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Dreyfus, M., Dalou, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1903, repr. p. 209 (Luxembourg Monument).

See also Hunisak, John M., The Sculptor Jules Dalou: Studies in His Style and Imagery, New York, 1977, pp. 158-162, fig. 93.

See also Milner, John, The Studios of Paris, New Haven, 1988, pp. 85, 87, 88, pl. 89.