拍品 116
116
PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND ESTATE
HIRAM POWERS (1805-1873)

細節
HIRAM POWERS (1805-1873)

'Fisherboy', A White Marble Bust

signed 'H POWERS'
19 1/8in. (48.9cm.) high, including marble socle
出版
L. Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1924, 1969 reprint, p. 65
A.T.E. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, pp. 4-5
W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1984 edition, pp. 115-116, 140, figs. 4,9
R. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873, Newark, 1991, Vol I, p. 321, Vol II, pp. 148-149, no. 177

拍品專文

Powers began modelling the Fisherboy in 1841 while working on the Greek Slave. An idealized depiction of a young boy, it is a rare portrayal of a contemporary subject and of a male nude in 19th century American sculpture.