Media Category: art

Auguste Rodin’s Three Shades (cast bronze), gift of Alma Spreckels, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Jean Spetrino as Mercury (1993). Acrylic on canvas covered wood panel (37×49). Hand signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. SKU: CS199336

The Continents in the courtyard of the musée d’Orsay (right to left): , l’Océanie (Australia) by Mathurin Moreau, l’Amérique du Sud by Aimé Millet, l’Amérique du Nord by Ernest Eugène Hiolle, l’Afrique by Eugène Delaplanche, l’Asie (Alexandre Falguière), and l’Europe by Alexandre Schœnewerk.

Palais du Trocadéro (1878 Paris Exposition-Universelle). The Six Continents are just visible (three to a side), on pedestals to the left and right of the entrance. The Young Elephant is by Emmanuel Frémiet. Today it has joined the Six Continents at d’Orsay.

Commissioned for the 1878 Paris Exposition-Universelle, the Continents sit on six pedestals on either side of the entrance to the Palais du Trocadéro. Four are visible in the photo; the other two are on pedestals behind the Continents on the far left, and far right.

1899 Postcard view from the Palais de Trocadéro toward the Tour Eiffel, between the figures of l’Asie (Alexandre Falguière). and l’Europe (Alexandre Schœnewerk). Paris Exposition-Universelle de 1889.

Side view of the Palais du Trocadéro (1878 Paris Exposition-Universelle), with the Continents visible on pedestals on either side of the entrance (lower left).

Postcard view of the Palais du Trocadéro, looking north across the Pont d’Iéna (1878).

The Continent of Europe (l’Europe) by Alexandre Schœnewerk. Photo: Wikipedia

The Continent of Asia (l’Asie) by Alexandre Falguière. Photo: Wikipedia