The Muse of History
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
ca. 1789 · Terracotta · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Dannecker evolved a weighty, very distinguished style of neoclassicism after training in Paris and Rome. Comparisons with standing figures of Tragedy and History in a relief of 1789 and a seated Girl with a Bird of 1790 make it likely that Dannecker modeled our statuette in Rome or soon after his return to Stuttgart in 1789.
- Artist
- Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
- Date
- ca. 1789
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- German, Stuttgart
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1969
