Around 1880 sculptor Adolf Brütt witnessed Aston’s Schröder’s rescue by Klaus Löpthien after her suicide attempt. His grief, that she’d have been damned; hers, an unwed mother at that time. By 1887 when sculpted she’d moved to America with husband and daughter. From my photo of bronze, Berlin 2024.

Adult content? Typical life size bronzes found in the monumental cemetery of Milan. One is in a bronze bed (the sculptor's girlfriend, in place of the young woman who died in her 1st childbirth). The other is a nude yearning for the fellow who died in 1943 (his parents are under there also).

A photo using a live model from 35 years ago. I've not been in contact with her but she last lived in LA. Here, she was about 20. I've been photographing portrait sculptures of the past since 2014 and making prints of them with their stories.

"Two women of differing temperaments, 1909, after Bistolfi" I photographed the plaster of the Senator Rosazza Monument in Buenos Aires. Models hired via Turin's fine arts academy, modeling a respectable career in Italy. One is on the point of speaking of her distress; the other has seen this before.

"Madame Bartholomé née Florence Letessier at 25, 1904, after Bartholomé" 1st wife dead, tuberculosis, 37, 1886, his work turned to grief, love life over. Florence modeled for him 1899, they married 1901, she 21, he 53. I photographed his marble of her 2022. She is serenely joyous in her skin.

Here’s one. She survived.

Stina Schröder rescued by Klaus Löpthien, 1887, after Adolf Brütt 2024 24 x 39” (61 x 100 cm

It allows me to "show" so here's what is shown.

And there is an image of the print. About 24 inches wide by 39 inches high, .6 x 1 meter.

McCartan hired Ziegfeld dancer Dorothy Knapp to model as Diana, Roman goddess of the hint snd of the moon. I worked with my photographs of the bronze to make a lifelike print. One is on my wall, the second in San Francisco. Ten remain. Here’s the bronze from about a century ago.