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Loie Fuller 4

Loie Fuller 4

Artist: Agathon Leonard
Photographer: Gavin Ashworth
Date of Work: 1902
Medium: Photograph
Type: Sculpture
Credit: Photographed by Gavin Ashworth for the White House Historical Association

A detail of one of the six Sevres dancers now in the collection of Sagamore Hill, which were given to Edith Roosevelt by a French delegation attending the unveiling of the Rochambeau statue in Lafayette Park in 1902.

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