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Private Theatricals/Last Moments behind the Scenes
John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
1878
- Medium
- plaster/cast/painted
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 24 1/8 x 19 5/8 x 12 in. (61.3 x 50.0 x 30.5 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert O. Werlich
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
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.
