Nature Unveiling Herself before Science
model 1895/1899, cast c. 1900
Sculptor, French, 1841 - 1905

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G1-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze with silvering and malachite
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
height without base: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2004.166.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Shepherd Gallery, New York); purchased 1993 by Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Pittsburgh; gift 2004 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 1 of chapter "Sculpture and Privacy."
Inscriptions
on proper left side of self base: E. Barrias
Markings
FM: Susse F. Ed'r
Wikidata ID
Q63864220