The Muse of History

Johann Heinrich von Dannecker

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dannecker evolved a weighty, very distinguished style of neoclassicism after training in Paris and Rome. Comparisons with standing figures of Tragedy and History in a relief of 1789 and a seated Girl with a Bird of 1790 make it likely that Dannecker modeled our statuette in Rome or soon after his return to Stuttgart in 1789.

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