Proserpine

model 1844, carved 1846 or later

Hiram Powers

Artist, American, 1805 - 1873

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G45

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Caroline Martha Hampton Preston [1807-1883, Mrs. John Smith Preston], Columbia, South Carolina;[1] purchased by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 1873 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to Donald M. Reynolds, Hiram Powers and His Ideal Sculpture, New York, 1977: 194, no. 43, the only record of the sculpture is in a privately owned letter of 1846 from Mrs. Preston's husband to the sculptor, from Columbia, in which he asks Powers for "a small work of your own choosing."

Associated Names

Bibliography

1882

  • Benjamin, S.G.W. "The Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Century 24, no. 6 (October 1882): 819.

Inscriptions

on the back: H. POWERS Sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q63864019

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