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Louis-Oscar Roty

The Body of President Sadi Carnot Borne to the Panthéon [obverse], 1894

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G1-C

Medium

silvered bronze

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Accession Number

2004.148.3.a

Artists / Makers

Louis-Oscar Roty (medalist) French, 1846 - 1911

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Yates, David and Constance

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."

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