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1840 - 1918. Known for: Animal sculpture.
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Re: Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Victor Peter in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was already world-famous at the time of this portrait,... Read full biography
Re: Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Victor Peter in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was already world-famous at the time of this portrait, which is an especially touching act of homage by an exact contemporary. Victor Peter was much in demand... Read full biography
Re: Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Victor Peter in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was already world-famous at the time of this portrait, which is an especially touching act of homage by an exact contemporary. Victor Peter was much in demand as a finisher of other sculptor's marbles, including Rodin's, although he is better remembered as a maker of small portrait medallions and charming reliefs with animal subjects. A medallion of Rodin... Read full biography
Re: Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Victor Peter in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was already world-famous at the time of this portrait, which is an especially touching act of homage by an exact contemporary. Victor Peter was much in demand as a finisher of other sculptor's marbles, including Rodin's, although he is better remembered as a maker of small portrait medallions and charming reliefs with animal subjects. A medallion of Rodin was among those Peter showed at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Here his style is monumental as befitting his subject – the massive countenance filling the space, the beard indeed falling over the edge – but the carving is carried out with an... Read full biography
Re: Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Victor Peter in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was already world-famous at the time of this portrait, which is an especially touching act of homage by an exact contemporary. Victor Peter was much in demand as a finisher of other sculptor's marbles, including Rodin's, although he is better remembered as a maker of small portrait medallions and charming reliefs with animal subjects. A medallion of Rodin was among those Peter showed at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Here his style is monumental as befitting his subject – the massive countenance filling the space, the beard indeed falling over the edge – but the carving is carried out with an ineffable tenderness.??. This is the Museum's only European example in marble of a low-relief style, essentially adapted from the rili... Read full biography