On View
Not on viewJoe's Farewell
Artist
Daniel Chester French
1850 - 1931
Terms
- Statuettes
Dimensions25.38 cm (10 in.)
MarkingsStamped on back: "D. C. French". Stamped on bottom in ink: "West's (the rest blurred)". On front of base: "JOE'S FAREWELL." On front of base: "DOLLY VARDEN AND JOE WLLET [Joe Willet]"
Credit LineGift of Mrs. F.H. Trumbull (1946)
Object numberC0198
DescriptionPlaster, colored light brown. "Dolly Varden and Joe Wllet [Joe Willet]". Sculptural group of two figures before a forge, inscribed on the front of the base, "JOE'S FAREWELL." This group, based on a passage from Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge," is the most ambitious work by French in terms of narrative and produced in remarkable detail.
Collections
- Artworks
Object number: 2025.1.6
Object number: 2007.6.6
M. Abrams
Early 1900s
Object number: 2022.10.4
Allen French
Spring 1924
Object number: 2022.9.12
Allen French
1935
Object number: Th6a
J. Cockburn Thomson
1855
Object number: Th6b
J. Cockburn Thomson
1855