File:Augustin Jean Moreau-Vauthier - The Three Theological Virtues - Walters 71584.jpg
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Augustin Moreau-Vauthier: The Three Theological Virtues ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q2871514 |
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Title |
The Three Theological Virtues |
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English: Shown in a Gothic architectural setting are statues of the personifications of the three theological Virtues: Charity, leading a child and carrying an infant; Faith, holding a cross and chalice; and Hope, with her anchor. They are placed beneath an elaborate canopy composed of openwork pinnacles, a triforium, and trefoil-drop tracery, and are supported on a tripartite pedestal faced with panels of delicate openwork. The backdrop is represented as a masonry wall bordered by colonettes and surmounted by a lancet arch.
In reviewing this work at the 1857 Paris Salon, L. N. Barbier, an ivory-turner and professor at Méru, observed:
Though Moreau-Vauthier had participated with his father, Jean-Louis Moreau, in producing a Renaissance-style ivory casket which was shown at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, the "Theological Virtues" was one of two of the sculptor's first works to be accepted in the Paris Salon; the other was an ivory medallion based on a relief by C. A. A. Gumery, depicting F. C. A. Toussaint, their mutual teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The Walters tabernacle illustrates the retention during France's Second Empire of the Gothic style, a form championed by such noted figures as the architects J. B. A. Lassus and E. E. Viollet-le-Duc. In addition, this work may also reflect the sculptor's indebtedness to his father, a "tablettier" (ivory-turner) who is remembered for a neo-Gothic ivory clock damascened with scenes from the life of Saint Louis. The clock was exhibited in 1844 as a project and in 1855 as a completed work. Each Virtue is carved from an individual tusk. The architectural setting is composed of numerous separate pieces of ivory. The composition is mounted in what appears to be the origional velvet-lined vitrine. It is signed in the masonry wall at lower left: "A Moreau. Scu.../1855." |
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Date |
1855 date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
ivory medium QS:P186,Q82001 |
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Dimensions |
89 cm (35 in); of virtues: 27.6 cm (10.8 in) |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
71.584 |
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Place of creation | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | [Signature] On masonry wall at lower left: A Moreau. Scu.../1855 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | L. N. Barbier (1857) Esquisse historique sur l'ivoirerie, Dutertre, pp. 70−71 OCLC: 25561411. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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