Vestibule, bronze doors with allegorical figures Truth and Romance, by Daniel Chester French, 1904 (other two doors represent Knowledge and Wisdom, and Music and Poetry). Daniel Chester French is one of the deservedly best-known sculptors of the nineteenth century, admired for his ability to fuse both realist interests and classical models. His seated statue of John Harvard (1883), now in Harvard Yard, was constructed by making studies of descendants. French's Minute Man at Concord is a fusion of great accurate colonial dress and farm implements with Harvard's the stance of the Apollo Belvedere, a classical work in the Vatican Museums. French's bronze doors of the Boston Public Library were installed in 1904. The swirling draperies, the noble proportions of the figures, and above all, the monumental import of the image link the design to classical precedents. Casts of Two Goddesses from the Parthenon (slide 101), on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, embody the same self-sufficient nobility of form. A single human figure swathed in its flowing draperies conveys the aesthetic and emotional import of the allegory.