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Ginevra (fragment), Hiram Powers, revised 1863
Hiram Powers, portraitHiram PowersAmerican, 1805–1873

Ginevra (fragment)

revised 1863 · Sculpture · 23.5 × 20.2 cm

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

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About the sculpture

The cult of youth had always been irresistable to artists and collectors alike. Ginevra depicts a fifteen-year-old bride, a tragic character from Samuel Rogers' popular poem Italy (1822), who dies on her wedding night after inadvertently locking herself in a trunk while playing hide-and-seek with her betrothed. Powers produced at least seven examples of Ginevra, his first ideal bust, before revising the composition in 1863 to eliminate the cascading curls of hair that were expensive to produce in marble.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Details

Accession number
1968.155.108

What it shows

LiteratureFemale figuresGinevraShelley

In the catalog

SculpturePlasterRealismImpressionism19th century

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