Attributed to Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762, French, active in Britain (from 1730)
Title:
Alexander Pope
Date:
ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches (60.3 × 54 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.24
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | medallion
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Baker, Figured in marble : the making and viewing of eighteenth-century sculpture, London, 2000, pp. 90-91, fig. 68, NB466 B35 2000 (YCBA)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, pp. 196-97, 208-09, 210. 267, 269, 273-74, fig. 290, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)J.V.G. Mallet, Some Portrait Medallions by Roubiliac, Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., London, April 1962, pp. 153-154, 156-157, no. 28, N1 B87 104 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 1068, no. 130, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: OrbisWilliam K. Wimsatt, The Portraits of Alexander Pope, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1965, pp. 248-249,251, no. 57-61.1, PR3633 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)