'Rebecca'

Details

Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)
'Rebecca'
inscribed 'C.B. Ives Roma 1856' (along the base)
white marble
43 in. (109.3 cm.) high

Literature

W. Gerdts, 'Chauncey Bradley Ives,' Magazine Antiques, November 1968, pp. 715-716, fig. 4, illustration of another example
A. Gardner, American Sculpture, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Connecticut, 1965, p. 9, illustration of another example
W. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture, New York, 1973, pp. 68-69, illustration of another example
W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, revised 1984, p. 286
R.J. Fairbanks et al., American Figurative Sculpture, Boston, 1986, pp. 44-45

Lot Essay

The popularity of Ives' 1854 depiction of the Old Testament heroine resulted in twenty-five examples commissioned, twelve of which sold to New York collectors alone. Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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