Winter 1787 Jean Antoine Houdon French 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. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #87. Winter, Part 1 Play or pause #87. Winter, Part 2 Supported by Bloombe
Winter 1787 Jean Antoine Houdon French 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. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #87. Winter, Part 1 Play or pause #87. Winter, Part 2 Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at this time. We are working to make it available as soon as Winter 202614
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