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Image as Homage
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Title: Portrait of the Sculptor Charles Drouet, 1859
Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American)
Medium: Drypoint.
Permanent Collection:Smart Museum of Art,
Carrie B. Neely Bequest, 1967.116.5.
Image Courtesy: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
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Creative genius was celebrated in the 19th Century with painters, sculptors,
writers, and musicians becoming the subject of art works forever capturing their
visage to honor their talent.
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Currently an exhibit celebrates this time frame by looking at artists celebrating other artists, such as James MacNeill Whistler's drypoint of the sculptor Charles Drouet.
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Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, was the subject of a Félix Vallotton
woodcut.
Ibsen's work included A Doll's House, 1879 which contained brutal criticism of the traditional roles expected within
the confines of a Victorian marriage. Many of his subsequent works focused on realism.
This brought drama back to the theater. Ibsen has been credited with giving rise to the modern realistic
drama in theater. Grieg scored one of his earliest works, Peer Gynt, 1867.
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Title: To Ibsen (A Ibsen), 1894,
Artist: Félix Vallotton (Swiss-French 1865-1925)
Medium: Woodcut.
Permanent Collection: Smart Museum of Art,
Purchase, Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2005.57.
Image Courtesy: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
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Title: Portrait of Jenny Lind, 1865
Artist: Margaret F. Foley (American 1820-1870)
Medium: Marble Relief Tondo.
Permanent Collection: Smart Museum of Art,
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Isadore Isoe, 1973.35.
Image Courtesy: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
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Title: Prince Paul Troubetzkoy I (sculpting a bust), 1908,
Artist: Anders Zorn (Swedish 1860-1920)
Medium: Etching.
Permanent Collection: Smart Museum of Art,
Gift of the Children of Leopold and Birdie Metzenberg, 1985.81.148.
Image Courtesy: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
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Rodin was a strong influence on Italian born Russian sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy I. Among those who sat for
him were Auguste Rodin, Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw.
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One of the themes of The Image of Homage is the difficulties presented when one artist attempts to honor another with a portrait.
Title: O Laborum Dulce Lenimen, 1865
Artist: Francis Seymour Haden
Medium: Etching
Permanent Collection: Smart Museum of Art, Carrie B. Neely Bequest, 1967.116.16.
Image Courtesy: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Image as Homage:
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago:
November 21, 2006 – April 8, 2007
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