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Private Theatricals/Last Moments behind the Scenes
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePrivate Theatricals/Last Moments behind the Scenes. 1878. John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert O. Werlich. CC0.
