page_title: Per Hasselberg
section_title: Grodan (Frog, Paris 1889)
hierarchical_section_title: Per Hasselberg / Major works / Grodan (Frog, Paris 1889)
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue by Swedish sculptor Per Hasselberg, Stockholm 1892, copy from 1953 in marble by Giovanni Ardini (Italy) placed in Rottneros Park near Sunne in Värmland/Sweden
context_page_description: Per Hasselberg, until 1870 Karl Petter Åkesson, was a Swedish sculptor. He has received critical acclaim mainly for his delicate and allegorical nudes, copies of which are widely distributed in public places and private homes in Sweden.
context_section_description: Grodan (French La Grenouille, English The Frog) was made in plaster cast for the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris and exhibited there. Between the knees of the girl there is a frog. Hasselberg reported that the concept of this piece had spontaneously come up when a model in his studio during a break sat on the floor in this position to rest.
  The French word grenouille does not only mean frog but in slang also street girl. It is unknown if Hasselberg was aware of this second meaning, but it was commented that by this statue he possibly wanted to express his time’s view of a tension between the noble and the less noble sides of youth.
  Several copies in bronze are in public parks in Sweden and marble copies in museums. The most recent bronze copy from 2009 in Ulricehamn replaced a stolen copy from the 1940s. 230 pieces in parian ware (marble imitation) with a height of 38 cm and 241 pieces in 26 cm were produced in 1906-1926 by Gustavsberg porcelain.
caption: Näckrosen (Water Lily), Stockholm 1892; here a copy from 1953 in marble by Giovanni Ardini (Italy) placed in Rottneros Park near Sunne in Värmland.
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