Peri at the Gates of Paradise, model 1854, carved by 1859

West Building, Ground Floor — Fourth Street Escalator Lobby

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall with base: 175.26 × 71.12 × 50.8 cm (69 × 28 × 20 in.)
base: 10.16 × 42.86 × 45.09 cm (4 × 16 7/8 × 17 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2014.136.281

Artists / Makers

Thomas Crawford (sculptor) American, 1814 - 1857

Image Use

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Inscription

on side of base at back left: CRAWFORD / FECIT / [lost]ME 185[lost]

Provenance

Collection of the artist's wife, Louisa Ward Crawford Terry [1823-1897], Rome; purchased 1886 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Terry, Louisa Ward Crawford

Exhibition History

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.

1976: Corcoran [The American Genius], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 24 January - 4 April 1976, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1858: Hicks, Thomas. Thomas Crawford, His Career, Character, and Works: A Eulogy. New York, 1858: 31.

1930: Taft, Lorado. The History of American Scupture. New York, 1930: 74-75.

1972: Crane, Sylvia. White Silence: Greenough, Powers and Crawford: American Sculptors in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Miami, 1972: 330, 368, 457.

1973: Gerdts, William H. American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection. New York, 1973: 76, fig. 47.

1984: Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark and New York, 1984: 133.