Artwork Details
13 x 11-1/2 x 7-1/2 in.
Mark DescriptionSigned below mirror: DALOU Inscribed at base of the rock: Susse Fres Ed - Paris Inscribed at rear of the rock behind the figure: cire perdu Stamp, at rear of the rock behind the figure: SUSSE FRERES EDITEURS PARIS Stamp, over the stamp above: 8 BRONZE
Accession NumberGift in memory of John and Cass Virts
CopyrightSale (Trosby Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida) conducted at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on 1 May 1972, lot 91, as by Eugene Galien-Laloue; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John R. Virts, Indianapolis; by descent to their daughter, Elizabeth Virts; given by her to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2011
- Dalou was the most prolific maker of public sculpture in late 19th-century Paris. Using the form of a beautiful nude woman with a broken mirror at her side, he created a universal allegory about confronting truth.
- The sculpture was also a specific reference to Alfred Dreyfus, a solider wrongly convicted of treason, whose case caused a political scandal in France.
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