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Proserpine
Hiram Powersmodel 1844, carved 1846 or later
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Proserpine
- Creator: Hiram Powers
- Date Created: model 1844, carved 1846 or later
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 55.88 × 49.21 × 28.58 cm (22 × 19 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
- 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."
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: marble
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