Painting & Sculpture

Daniel Chester French

1899 · Bronze · The American Wing

Located at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street, the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial was unveiled in 1898 in honor of Hunt (1827–1895), the architect who designed the central facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hunt Memorial is flanked by allegorical representations of the sister arts: Painting and Sculpture on the left and Architecture on the right. In her right hand Painting and Sculpture grasps a sculptor’s mallet, while her left hand holds a palette and a reduced model of a fragment of Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon.

Artist

Daniel Chester French

Date

1899

Medium

Bronze

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2013