Collection Highlights
The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
Date:
Object Number:
PR.068.34
Medium:
Paper, engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pierre Lecompte du Nouy (1883-1947)
Object Number:
1952.43
Date:
1948
Medium:
Bronze colored painted plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 9 in. ( 47 x 19 x 22.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: signed on back: MALVINA HOFFMAN/1948"
Description:
Portrait bust
Gallery Label:
Du Nouy was born in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, specializing in biology and physiochemistry. He was the author of "Biological Time" (1937) and "Human Destiny" (1947). He joined the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the mid-1920s, then returned to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute, where he remained until 1937, when he became director of Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. He escaped from Nazi-occupied Paris and came to the U.S. in 1942.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
