Artwork Details
- Title
- Private Theatricals/Last Moments behind the Scenes
- Artist
- Date
- 1878
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 24 1⁄8 x 19 5⁄8 x 12 in. (61.3 x 50.0 x 30.5 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert O. Werlich
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- plaster/cast/painted
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group
- Performing arts — theater
- Object Number
- 1976.113.18
Artwork Description
John Rogers modeled many sculptures of what he described as the “spirit and action” of the theater. This piece shows two actors in seventeenth-century costume, making final preparations before going on stage. The artist’s sister, Laura Derby Rogers, may have posed for this group while visiting Rogers’s new house in Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan.