European sculpture of the nineteenth century

by Ruth Butler

"The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin - among them The Kiss - and Honore Daumier's celebrated portrait busts and subversive figure Ratapoil, which were donated to the Gallery by Lessing J. Rosenwald in 1943 and 1951. They, together with sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Paul Gauguin, and Theodore Gericault, among others, are examined in unprecedented depth, shedding new light in many areas. All works have been newly photographed, highlighting the masterly execution of the marbles and...

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