Overview

Jules Dalou (1838-1902), best known for his monumental tributes to the French Republic, worked in exile in Britain during the 1870s, where he made a very different range of small-scale sculptures which he later repudiated. Supported here, ironically perhaps, by the aristocracy, he enjoyed a particularly fruitful relationship with the Countess of Carlisle of Castle Howard, whom he portrayed in a statuette.

This study exhibition looks at the motif of the seated woman as one that engages with questions of class, genre and portraiture. Touring to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in 2009.