The Paris Years
In the decades following the Civil War American sculptors began more and more to go to Paris to study — falling in with the more naturalistic and dramatic style exemplified by the works of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) and Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875) and other French sculptors. Among these Americans were Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies and Daniel Chester French.
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Adams Memorial Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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The Daniel Chester French sculpture at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Lincoln (detail), 1916, Daniel Chester French, Art Institute of Chicago
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MacMonnies' Princeton Battle Monument
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