1787, Paris
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1787, Paris
- Identifier
- 62.55
- Transfer of custody
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Acquisition
- Bequest of Kate Trubee Davison, 1962
- Collection
- Technique
- Embroidery 63%
- Embroidery 78%
- Embroidery 53%
- Embroidery 79%
- Embroidery 99%
- Embroidery 80%
- Embroidery 51%
- Embroidery 62%
- Embroidery 54%
- Embroidery 79%
- Embroidery 63%
- Depiction
- Floral motif 44%
- Floral motif 42%
- Floral motif 41%
- Floral motif 42%
- Floral motif 37%
- Floral motif 42%
- Floral motif 46%
- Vegetal motif 41%
- Vegetal motif 43%
- Geometrical motif 52%
- Geometrical motif 43%
- Floral motif 44%
- Dimension
- 39.1 cm (height)50.5 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
Description
A frileuse is a woman subject to cold. A marble version (Musée Fabre, Montpellier), dated 1783, was originally intended as an allegory of Winter. For the Museum's bronze, cast by Houdon himself and coming from the collection of the duc d'Orléans, Houdon stripped the spiraling columnar composition to its bare essentials. The girl's tremulous flesh is offset by her tightly drawn shawl, elegant but hardly adequate.
