Untitled
1897
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
About the artist
Artist
Thomas Vinçotte
Baron Thomas Jules Vinçotte was a Belgian sculptor and medallist.
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photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1897 photographic by Thomas Vinçotte, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a stone sculpture. A woman stands tall, holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and a staff in the other. Around her, three smaller figures—two children and a baby—lean against her legs or sit close by. The woman’s face is calm, and the whole group looks connected, almost like a family. The photo has handwritten text at the bottom, but it’s not clear what it means. The sculpture’s smooth, rounded shapes stand out against the rough base it rests on. If you like this kind of detailed stonework, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A photograph mounted on green card, this image is part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture, received the photograph and others like it in the 1920s as responses to questionnaires he sent to sculptors. The collection is now held in the Archive of Art and Design.
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Baron Thomas Jules Vinçotte was a Belgian sculptor and medallist.
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