Smithsonian American Art Museum
Private Theatricals/Last Moments behind the Scenes
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · 1878
John Rogers modeled many sculptures of what he described as the “spirit and action” of the theater. This piece shows two actors in seventeenth-century costume, making final preparations before going on stage. The artist’s sister, Laura Derby Rogers, may have posed for this group while visiting Rogers’s new house in Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan.
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