The Body of President Sadi Carnot Borne to the Panthéon [obverse]

1894

Louis-Oscar Roty

Medalist, French, 1846 - 1911

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G1-C

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    silvered bronze

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    overall (rectangular): 7.78 × 5.72 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.148.3.a

Associated Artworks

France Mourning the President of the Republic [reverse]

Louis-Oscar Roty

1894

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David and Constance Yates, New York); purchased 2004 for NGA by anonymous donor.

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. 12 of chapter "Sculpture and Privacy."

Inscriptions

upper right corner: 1ER JUILLET; lower right: SADI CARNOT / PRESIDENT / DE LA / REPUBLIQUE / FRANÇAISE; lower right corner: O. Roty

Wikidata ID

Q63864235

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