Ideal Figure with Harp
Chauncey Bradley Ives
American, 1810–1894

Details
Title
Ideal Figure with Harp
Artist/Maker
Chauncey Bradley Ives (American, 1810–1894)
Date
1864, carved 1871
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
51 1/4 x 21 x 31 inches
Credit
Gift of the West Foundation in honor of Gudmund Vigtel and Michael E. Shapiro
Accession #
2010.69
On View
Currently not on view
Among the most prolific American sculptors of the nineteenth century, Chauncey Bradley Ives worked in Rome from 1851 until his death in 1894. Rome was a center for marble sculpture production in the 1800s, and art studios catered to the many well-to-do American travelers looking to take home artful mementos while on the Grand Tour. Sculpture was considered a fashionable acquisition, and Ives’s classically themed works appealed to conservative mid-century American tastes.
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