Artwork overview
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Medium
marble
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 53.02 × 40.64 × 22.54 cm (20 7/8 × 16 × 8 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3808
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased sometime after November 1853 by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1873 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Betsy Fahlman, Spirit of the South: The Sculpture of Alexander Galt, 1827-1863, exh. cat., Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, 1992: 79.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 15 September 1966, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1857
Lanman, Charles. Catalogue of W.W. Corcoran's Gallery. Washington, 1857: 15, no. 72.
1904
Spencer, Edwina. "American Sculptors and Their Art: Sculptors at Work Prior to the Centennial." The Chautauguan(February 1904): 557.
Inscriptions
on the back: A Galt
Wikidata ID
Q63863410