The Infant Nero

This portrait was commissioned as a “copy of the infant Nero” by an Englishman named C. Noel Welman. In contrast to many of his ideal sculptures, Hiram Powers modeled this piece to resemble the realistic style of Roman portraiture. Welman asked for a bust with no drapery, but evidently Powers ignored this request and the young child is shown with a Greek himation, or cloak, covering his shoulders.

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Im selben Saal · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 17B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Zum selben Thema · Classical dress

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Andrew Jackson

George Washington

The Greek Slave

Fisher Boy

Proserpine

Bust of "The Greek Slave"

America

California

Alma Hammond L'Hommedieu, 1872 or 1873

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, modeled 1869

Judge Alphonso Taft, 1869

Henry Barrett Crosby, 1869 or 1870

Caleb Fiske Harris, 1867

Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1867

Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson, 1862

Solomon Sturgis, modeled 1862

William West Durant, modeled 1863

Diana, 1853

Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth", ca. 1903

Study for Mosaic, Wisconsin State Capital, "Legislation", ca. 1913

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Youth and Age, 1883-1884

Hope, modeled 1869

Sketch for Mosaic, Wisconsin State Capital, "Justice", ca. 1912

Senator William Campbell Preston, modeled 1837