Penserosa

c. 1863

William Henry Rinehart

Sculptor, American, 1825 - 1874

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1863 in Rome by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1873 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] See letter of 12 October 1863 from the sculptor to Corcoran, in Letterbook 12, 22 September 1863 - 13 June 1864, The Papers of William Wilson Corcoran, Library of Congress, Washington; copy in NGA curatorial files.

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Exhibition History

1988

  • American Neoclassical Sculpture at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1880

  • Griffith, George Bancroft. "A Day at the Capital." Potter's American Monthly (January 1880): 1-12.

1930

  • Taft, Lorado. The History of American Sculpture. New York, 1930: 178.

1948

  • Ross, Marvin Chauncey, and Elizabeth Wells Rutledge. William Henry Rinehart, Maryland Sculptor, 1825-1874. Baltimore, 1948: 127.

1973

  • Gerdts, Wiliam H. American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection. New York, 1973: 127-128, fig. 130.

Wikidata ID

Q63864500

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