After Hiram Powers, Grand Tour Marble Sculpture of “The Greek Slave” For Sale

After Hiram Powers (American, 1805-1873), “The Greek Slave”. A finely carved white marble sculpture after the antiquity...

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After Hiram Powers, Grand Tour Marble Sculpture of “The Greek Slave”

Name: After Hiram Powers, Grand Tour Marble Sculpture of “The Greek Slave”
Price: 8950 USD
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After Hiram Powers (American, 1805-1873), “The Greek Slave”. A finely carved white marble sculpture after the antiquity which is currently … more After Hiram Powers (American, 1805-1873), “The Greek Slave”. A finely carved white marble sculpture after the antiquity which is currently held in the collection of Yale University. This model is unsigned but displays excellent quality likely dating to the late 19th or early 20th century.

Source Yale University Art Gallery

“There should be a moral in every work of art,” proclaimed the expatriate sculptor Hiram Powers from his studio in Florence, Italy. Taking as his subject the atrocities committed during the Greek War of Independence, Powers portrays a young Greek woman for sale by her Turkish captors. The sculpture, whose pose was based in part on the Florentine Venus de’ Medici, immediately made the artist one of the most acclaimed sculptors of his day. Powers defended the figure’s nudity, a controversial topic at the time in puritanical America, by “clothing” her in the garb of moral and religious strength. “It is not her person but her spirit that stands exposed,” he wrote. The Greek Slave became a symbol for abolitionists and the most celebrated sculpture in nineteenth-century America, inspiring an outpouring of prose and poetry. less

Dimensions: 9.5ʺW × 9ʺD × 32.75ʺH

Styles: American; Grand Tour

Art Subjects: Figure

Period: Late 19th Century

Country of Origin: United States

Item Type: Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned

Materials: Marble

Condition: Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections

Color: White

Tear Sheet

Condition Notes: Minor inclusions to marble, no significant cracks or chips. One finger has been repaired as photographed. Minor inclusions to marble, no significant cracks or chips. One finger has been repaired as photographed. less

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