Pairs of sculptures collected by James Ricau

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 1997 by H. Nichols B. Clark

5 Florentia, "A walk Through the studios of Rome," Art Journal, vol. 6 (June 1, 1854), p. 185.

6 "Thomas Crawford: A Eulogy," Atlantic Monthly, vol. 24 (July 1869), p. 53.

7 Florentia, "A walk Through the Studios of Rome," p. 185.

8 Cited in Dimmick, "A Catalogue," p. 311.

9 (New York, 1867), p. 313.

10 These two statues are discussed at length in my catalogue of the Ricau collection, A Marble Quarry.: The James H. Ricau Collection of sculpture in The Chrysler Museum of Art, to be published this month by Hudson Hills Press in New York.

11 Christie's (New York), November 30, 1990, lot 48 (in which Will-o'-the-Wisp is incorrectly entitled Puck and the Owl).

12 September 1964, p. 291.

13 Boston Transcript, May 28, 1859.

14 March 11, 1858, quoted in Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories, ed. Cornelia Crow Carr (Moffat, Yard, New York, 1912),p. 123.

15 See ANTIQUES, March 1970, pp. 378-381.

16 New-York Evening Post, April 9, 1872.

17 The undated notice was placed by Guffanti's Original, 274 Seventh Avenue, New York City (curatorial files, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut).

18 Florentia, "A walk Through the studios of Rome," p. 185.

19 Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, rev. ed. (Macmillan, New York, 1924), p. 109.

20 Coopers Ruth Heathcote had ample precedent in history. See John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (Vintage, New York, 1994).

21 An example is in the Yale University Art Gallery.

22 An example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

23 Hiram Fuller, Sparks from a Locomotive, or Life and Liberty in Europe (New York, 1859), p. 271.

24 Dannecker's statue is illustrated in Horst W. Janson, 19th-Century Sculpture (Abrams, New York, 1985), p. 62.

25 William Henry Rinehart, "Libra Maestro," May 9, 1865, p. 113 (Rinehart papers, archives of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland). "Libra Maestro" was Rinehart's order book, noting client, date of order, and subject. The following year Clark ordered the first replica of Rinehart's Hero.

26 See John Stephens Crawford, "The Classical Tradition in American Sculpture: Structure and Surface," American Art Journal, vol. 11, July 1979, pp. 39-40.

27 Boston Daily Evening Transcript, June 11, 1853.

H. NICHOLS B. CLARK is the Eleanor McDonald Storza Chair of Education at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.