Bust

Title:

Edward Tuck

Object Name:

Bust

Object ID:

1925.016

Creator:

Lejeune, Louis Aime (1884-1969)

Place of Origin:

Paris, France

Date:

1925

Description:

Portrait bust of Edward Tuck (1842-1938). Sculpted by Louis Aime Lejeune (Bronze. Life-size bust of man; shoulders truncated at ends; no circular base; hollow. Pupils and iris of eyes defined. Prominent eyebrows and mustache. Wearing shirt with upright collar turned down at front, necktie and collarless outer garment with button or (?) at his left. Inscribed on surface of truncated end at subject's left, "L.A. LEJEUNE / MCMXXV." Lozenge-shaped founder's mark on same end near bottom, with upper case lettering: "CIREPERDUE / LEBLANC-BARBEDIENNE & FILS / A PARIS."
Identified in relief lettering on accompanying marble pedestal (1927.019), "EDWARD TUCK".
Cast using lost-wax (cire-perdue) process, probably from half life-size study modeled previous year. See 1959.018.

Material:

Metal
Bronze

Dimensions:

H-18.5 W-13.25 D-9.5 inches

Provenance:

Edward Tuck (1842-1938), a native of Exeter, NH, retired from a profitable career in international banking at the age of thirty-nine. Though, by 1890, he had established permanent residence in Paris, he never forgot his native state. The New Hampshire Historical Society's 30 Park Street building, financed largely by Tuck and his wife Julia Stell, is but one of many monuments that they left to New Hampshire. Because of the couple's generosity and public spirit, their family name appears across the state from the Tucke Monument on the Isles of Shoals to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Credit Line:

Gift of Edward Tuck

People:

Tuck, Edward (1842-1938)

Subjects:

Tuck, Edward