Figural study of a female nude seated
Jacques-Edmé Dumont
late 18th–early 19th century · Terracotta · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Jacques-Edmé Dumont was a highly accomplished Neoclassical miniaturist. His family, a dynasty of sculptors, preserved a great many of these captivating little terracottas (see 2015.378–.382a, b). This figural study shows how Dumont expertly wielded a flat-sided stick to carve the clay along rectangular planes.
- Artist
- Jacques-Edmé Dumont
- Date
- late 18th–early 19th century
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- French
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2015
