Gwen John (Study for a Muse)

Auguste Rodin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This piece is a study for an uncompleted monument to James Abbott McNeill Whistler, which was commissioned in 1903 but rejected in 1916 by the Whistler Memorial Committee. The model for this head, Gwen John (1876–1939), was the sister of Augustus John and a student at the Slade School of Art in London before becoming a painter in her own right.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art