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Date : 1890
Material : Bronze
Acquisition : Lent by Asudar and Shelley Azapian (1987)
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American Art
Sculpture
Area related
New Jersey (USA)
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In 1889, the young Paris-trained sculptor MacMennies received a commission from the Beaux-Arts architect Stanford White to execute a fountain figure for the grounds of Roballion, an estate White has designed in the late 1880's in Seabright (now Rumson), New Jersey. The owner, Edward Dean Adams, a prominent New York banker and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, chose this name for his summer home because its gentle hills and red soil reminded him a place in Scotland. MacMonnies modeled Pan of Roballion in Paris, where it was cast at the Gruet Foundry. Pan is depicted as the young god of flocks and pastures, the forests and their wildlife, contentedly playing his reed pipes. Although this mythological figure usally is represented with the legs - and sometimes the ears and horns - of a goat, MacMonnies chose to emphasize his human characteristics, no doubt as a result of his academic training abroad.
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