The Slave Girl

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This lifesize statue depicts a female slave, standing half nude with her hands in chains. The work was carved from white carrara marle and is signed and dated J. A. Jerichau 1950.   Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau (17 April 1816 – 25 July 1883) was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Rome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its director from 1857 to 1863.