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Five Female Figures, silhouette for the shadow play Le Fils de l'Eunuque
Five Female Figures, silhouette for the shadow play Le Fils de l'Eunuque
Five Female Figures, silhouette for the shadow play Le Fils de l'Eunuque

Five Female Figures, silhouette for the shadow play Le Fils de l'Eunuque

Artist Henry Somm (French, 1844-1907)
Date1890-1895
MediumZinc
DimensionsOverall: 48.4 × 72.6 × 0.2 cm (19 1/16 × 28 9/16 × 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsSilhouette
Credit LineMindy and Ramon Tublitz Purchase Fund
Object number1990.0716.001-003
Collections
Exhibition History- Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 03/20/2005-06/12/2005, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 07/16/2005-10/10/2005 - Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, 10/23/2005-03/12/2006, Zimmerli Art Museum, Voorhees Gallery - Rotation, 03/2007-02/2008, 19th Century Gallery - Into the Night: Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, 10/04/2019-01/19/2020, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, 02/14/2020-06/01/2020

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