France crowning Art and Industry
A limestone group of allegories that once crowned a major Paris exhibition building.
Illusions Received by the Earth
Two female figures, one based on Rodin’s Torso of Adele.
Descent from the Cross
A seven-figure ensemble with detailed garments and traces of original polychromy.
Children and Frog
A popular fountain group that moved from a private garden to the city center.
Laocoön
A dramatic classical group that changed locations several times in Odessa.
Morianbron
A tiny wooden bridge flanked by two black-painted bronze figures.
The Confidence
Four nude women lean together as one confides in the others.
The Gladiators
A bronze tribute showing the artist sculpting his own gladiators.
Three Standing Figures
A large stone work first shown in Battersea Park in 1948.
The Three Graces
Three nude goddesses stand together in a graceful neoclassical composition.
Große Zwei V
A bronze work by Fritz Koenig linked to Dante’s tragic lovers.
Immortality Overtaking Time
A Baroque allegorical quadriga in green-patinated copper atop the Grand Palais.
Two Working Men
A pair of statues that became known locally by the nickname “Cha y Miah.”
Dickens and Little Nell
Bronze figure group portraying Charles Dickens with Nell Trent from The Old Curiosity Shop.
Mourning Parents
A granite pair of grieving figures created as a memorial to a fallen son.
Robert E. Lee
An equestrian monument showing a general with his horse and another mounted soldier.
Centauress and Faun
A bronze centauress carries a male faun amid bacchic details.
Procne and Itys
A marble group showing a mother poised to kill her son in revenge.
Athena Protects the Young Hero
Athena shields a warrior with her shield while poised to throw her spear.
Standing Psyche and Love
A neoclassical marble group showing Psyche offering Cupid a butterfly.
Canada's Golgotha
A crucified Canadian soldier is surrounded by mocking German soldiers.
Eustache de Saint Pierre
A study of the oldest burgher, shown with lowered arms and a bowed body.
Court of Neptune Fountain
Granite basin with bronze figures of Neptune, Tritons, and naiads.
Virgin from Ger
A solemn seated Madonna and Child in polychromed wood.
Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi
A towering saint with raised arms stands above five devoted followers.
Lions at the Dvortsovaya Pier
Leaf-copper lions on cast-iron pedestals guarding a historic St. Petersburg embankment.
The Torch Bearers
A young rider takes a torch from an elderly man lying on the ground.
El Salobral Sphinxes
A mirrored pair of Iberian sphinxes made to guard a funerary tomb.
A-maze-ing Laughter
Fourteen towering bronze figures share the artist’s hysterical laughter.
Mercury and Psyche
A marble work by Reinhold Begas, created between 1867 and 1878.
Plaça de Catalunya Sculptures
A large open-air museum of 28 public sculptures in central Barcelona.
Kindertransport
A bronze memorial to children evacuated from Nazi-occupied Europe to Britain.
Survival of the Fattest
A bronze figure of global injustice, balancing a starving boy beneath a fat woman.
Victor Schœlcher Statue
A bronze group showing Schœlcher with a newly freed enslaved man.
Group of Bears
Bronze bears appearing in multiple casts and public installations.
Orpheus Fountain
A fountain topped by Orpheus and surrounded by eight moving figures.
Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue
A bronze equestrian portrait flanked by two walking figures.
Le Miroir
A marble standing woman and a bronze servant arranged on a sculpted bronze base.
Sam'al lions
Ancient gateway lions, partly recarved and set at right angles to each other.
Sztafeta
Three nude runners capture the moment of a relay handoff.
Spirit of Haida Gwaii
A symbolic cedar dugout canoe filled with mythic figures and human passengers.
God our Father on the Rainbow
A monumental parabolic arch crowned by God, with an angel offering stars.
Horse Tamers
Two bronze equestrian statues of a horse trainer and his horse.
Statue of Saladin
An equestrian bronze monument showing victory, captives, and the crown of Jerusalem.
Hercules and Lychas
A dramatic marble group showing Hercules hurling the unsuspecting youth into the air.
Nenningen Pietà
A late Baroque group showing Mary grieving over the dead Christ.
End of the Trail
A weary Native American and horse, shown exhausted and turned against the wind.
La yunta
A bronze scene of a farmer working the land with two yoked oxen.
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
A bronze figure of Heracles wrestling the invincible lion of Greek myth.
Pan and Daphne
A marble group showing Pan teaching a shy shepherd to play the flute.