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on the back: H. POWERS Sculp.

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."

Bibliography

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

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