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- Title:
Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare
- Date:
- between 1760 and 1761
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 1/4 x 39 3/4 inches (127.6 x 101 cm), Frame: 57 1/2 × 46 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (146.1 × 118.7 × 8.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.87
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.87FR
- Subject Terms:
- costume | hand | hat | interior | literary theme | man | modeling (forming) | modello | playwright | portrait | sculptor | sculpture | studio (work space) | table | temple | terracotta sculpture | tools
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Roubiliac, Louis François (1702–1762), sculptor - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:596
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Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Waddesdon (NT), 2014-06-18 - 2014-10-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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L'esprit créateur : de Pigalle à Canova, terres cuites européennes de 1740 à 1840 (Musée du Louvre, 2003-09-15 - 2004-01-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, frontpiece; pp. 178-79, 342, 343, frontpiece and fig. 371, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Bindman, Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument : Sculpture as Theatre, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 1995, p. 79, NJ18 R764 A12 B55 1995 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 48-49, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Rosie Dias, Exhibiting Englishness, John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the formation of a national aesthetic , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2013, pp.43, 44, fig. 15, N72.N38 D53 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
James David Draper, Playing with fire, European terracotta models, 1740-1840 , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Paris New Haven, 2004, pp. 24-25, no. 2, fig. 2, NB1265 D69713 2004 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Fame & friendship, Pope, Roubiliac, and the portrait bust in eighteenth-century Britain , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2014, p.0, 11, 24, V 2515 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robin D. Gwynn, Huguenot heritage, the history and contribution of the Huguenots in Britain , Sussex Academic Press, Brighton Portland, Or., 2001, BX9458 G7 2001(SML) [ORBIS]
John F. Kerslake, Early Georgian portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1977, pp. 237-8 (v. 1), no. 303 (v. 1),, N1090 A591 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Hugh Phillips, Mid-Georgian London, a topographical and social survey of central and western London about 1750. , Collins, London, 1964, p. 112, DA682 P49 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Genial company, the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture , University of Nottingham, [Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1987, p. 36, 38, ND1314.4 S43 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Thomas Whitley, Artists and their friends in England, 1700-1799, Medici Society, London & Boston, 1928, p. 168, N6766 W45 (YCBA) [YCBA]