  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  The greatest French baroque sculptor, Puget, created this model for a monumental marble group to stand in the gardens of the royal chateau at Versailles. Although many variants and copies have been made of this piece, this bronze appears to be the only seventeenth-century cast, probably made under Puget's supervision in Toulon in the south of France.
  
  
  Title
  The Abduction of Helen
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1683-1686
  
  Artist
  Pierre Puget
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1620-1694
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Bronze
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 38 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 19 &Atilde;&#151; 16 15/16 inches (97.2 &Atilde;&#151; 48.3 &Atilde;&#151; 43 cm)
  Mount (pedestal): 38 1/8 &Atilde;&#151; 19 13/16 &Atilde;&#151; 19 13/16 inches (96.8 &Atilde;&#151; 50.3 &Atilde;&#151; 50.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  79.21
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
