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Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710-1770), 1800s. Porcelain figurine. Gift of Allison Delarue, Class of 1928. Museum objects collection.

The French ballerina Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710-1770) was a member of the Paris Opéra. She studied under Françoise Prevost before making her debut in 1726 in Les Caractères de la danse. See Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), Les caractères de la danse [facimile](Bressuir: Anne Fuzeau Classique, c2012). Mendel Music Library (SVF): Facsimiles Oversize M1520.R297 C37 2012q

Constance Whitney Warren (1888-1948), Bronco Rider (also called Texas Cowboy), ca. 1921. Cast bronze at Valsuani Cire Perdue. Museum objects collection.

“The Texas Cowboy Rides at Austin,” declared the New York Times on February 1, 1925. “Statue given to the state by Mrs. Constance Whitney Warren of Paris, commemorating the frontiersman, unveiled by Charles Casson, Vice President of the Chemical National Bank of New York.”

The life-size sculpture also known as The Cowboy or Cowboy Riding a Bucking Bronco, received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1923. Two years later, Warren donated the statue to the State of Texas and had it installed outside the Texas State Capitol in Austin where it can still be found.

Three smaller models for the Warren’s statue are known to exist, cast from a mould copyrighted 1921. One of them is in the sculpture collection of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Princeton University Library.

The American sculptor Constance Whitney Warren (1888-1948) was the daughter of the millionaire George Henry Warren (1856-1943), a founder of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company and, at one time, president of United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company.

According to exhibition reviews, Constance was drawing and painting at an early age. This came to a halt in 1912, when she fell in love with Count Guy de Lasteyrie, married him and moved to Paris.

In 1921, Warren was one of eight American sculptors whose work was included in the Paris Salon of that year, placing her next to Katharine Fuller, Edward Stanford, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Unfortunately, later in her life, Warren suffered from a mental illness and spent her last 18 years in an institution for the insane.

Among the many sculptures and portrait busts in Rare Books and Special Collections is this likeness of Maurice-Edgar Coindreau (1892-1990), a Professor of Romance Languages at Princeton University for many years. Coindreau is known as one of the most prestigious translator of American fiction into French, remembered in particular for his translations of the works of William Faulkner. William Faulkner, Lumière d’août (A Light in August), traduction et introduction de Maurice E. Coindreau (Paris: Gallimard, 1935). Ex 3734.92.358.58

Pryas (1891-1985), Bust of Maurice-Edgar Coindreau (1892-1990), 1900s. Bronze. Museum Objects Collection.

[left] John Keats (1795-1821) life mask, [ca. 1810]. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Loan from the William Ramsay Henderson Trust

[right] John Keats (1795-1821) life mask by Benjamin Robert Haydon, from the original in National Portrait Gallery, London, [ca. 1810]. Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks, Princeton University.

A group of “Phrenological Heads: the Famous” are on permanent display in the library of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Several are portraits of the same sitters represented in the Laurence Hutton collection at Princeton. It is interesting to compare ours with theirs.

[left] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) death mask, 1834. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Loan from the William Ramsay Henderson Trust

[right] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) death mask, from the original, 1834. Laurence Hutton Life and Death Mask Collection, Princeton University.

Library, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Helmuth Nathan (1901–1979), Bust of Albert Einstein, ca. 1967. Cast bronze. Museum objects collection. (Ex) 5014. Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Norvin Rieser.

This cast bronze bust of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is currently on view in the second floor lounge of the Department of Physics in Jadwin Hall on Washington Road.

The artist was Dr. Helmuth Nathan (1901-1979), who emigrated to the United States in 1936 and worked at several hospitals before joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in 1955 as a professor of surgery and founding faculty member.

In 1973, Nathan was appointed professor and chair of Einstein College’s newly created department of the history of medicine.

Dr. Nathan was not only a published researcher but also a painter, sculptor and graphic artist whose work is displayed in numerous museums, libraries, and private collections.

According to the 2010 Einstein College Alumni Magazine, “Helmuth Nathan is perhaps best known among early Einstein students for bringing nude art models into the lecture hall and attempting to teach us medical students how to sketch the human figure.”

A second copy of Dr. Nathan’s bust of Einstein is on view in the lobby of the Siegfried and Irma Ullmann Research Center for Health Sciences.

Gertrude Fass, Statuette of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), no date [1900s]. Cast bronze on black micarta base. Cast in the workshop of Domenico Ranieri (Long Island City). Copy no. 4 of 250. Princeton University Library museum object collection.

As noted in a recent New Yorker, this is the bicentenary of Anthony Trollope’s birth.  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/trollope-trending

The Princeton University Library owns 554 books by, about, or owned by Trollope, not to mention numerous portrait drawings, paintings, and sculptures. This one moved downstairs recently and so, we took a quick photograph.

The Graphic Arts Collection holds nearly 300 drawings, prints, and commercial posters by the Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004). The collection reflects the wide range of work created by this graphic artist and calligrapher including sketchbooks and drawings from his years in the United States Army; designs of Cartier jewelry from his time at the firm; fine art prints; caricatures; and over 90 international posters he created for exhibitions, conferences, and performing arts events.

Beyond the works on paper, we hold a small group of carved woodblocks. Several are meant as matrices for the printing of an image and several meant to be beautiful carved designs on their own.

Homar was a good friend to Princeton University and in 1992, the Program in Latin American Studies commissioned a carved plaque for the La Casas seminar room in the Joseph Henry House. When that room closed and the program moved, the carving was donated to the Graphic Arts Collection. This and two other blocks are shown here.

Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004), Untitled [Alphabet], 1966. Wood carving. GA 2007.04028

Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004), Sala fray Bartolome de Las Casas, 1992. Carved woodblock. GA 2007.04029 Gift of Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies.

Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004), Los Renegados: The Birds and the Bats, 1963. Carved woodblock. GA 2007.03846