Bust
- Title:
- Francis Ormond French
- Object Name:
- Bust
- Object ID:
- 1996.056
- Creator:
- French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)
Sculptor - Date:
- 1882-1913
- Description:
- Life-size portrait bust of Francis Ormond French (1837-1893) by Daniel Chester French, 1882 (revised 1913). Cast bronze, with brown patina. Sculpture depicts middle-aged man, looking slightly to left, wearing a high-collar shirt and single-breasted jacket. Bushy mustache, wavy hair. Bust on square pedestal. Crest flanked by fleur-de-lis on pedestal front, overlapping laurel leaves on remaining three sides. Back of bust inscribed, "FRANCIS ORMOND FRENCH / DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH / SCULPTOR . 1882 . / REVISED 1913 ." Back of pedestal, bottom right, inscribed, "JNO.WILLIAMS INC. / BRONZE FOUNDRY N.Y."
- Material:
- Metal
Bronze - Dimensions:
- H-26 W-21 D-13 inches
- Provenance:
- Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), Exeter, NH, Cambridge, MA, Concord, MA, and NY (b. Exeter, NH. Married Mary Adams French, 1888). Prolific public sculptor, most famous for "Minute Man" in Lexington, MA, and for "Abraham Lincoln" in Washington, DC. Also designed seal of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Peter S. French
- Subjects:
- French, Francis Ormond, Sculpture
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