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Daniel Chester French American, 1850-1931 Maquette for an Allegory of Architecture, 1898 Signed with initials D.C.F. and dated 1898 on the base Bronze with dark brown patina 12 1/2 x 4 x 2 7/8 inches Provenance: Private collection, New York and Florida, 1960s-2006 [With] James Graham & Sons, New York, 2006 Located at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street, the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial was unveiled in 1898 in honor of Hunt (1827-1895), the architect who designed the central facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hunt Memorial is flanked by allegorical representations of the sister arts: Painting and Sculpture on the left and Architecture on the right. In this maquette Architecture holds a small representation of Hunt's Administration Building for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago C Property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art