Penserosa, c. 1863

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 60.96 × 46.36 × 29.21 cm (24 × 18 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2014.136.264

Artists / Makers

William Henry Rinehart (sculptor) American, 1825 - 1874

Image Use

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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.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

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.