George Washington, Horatio Greenough, 1840
Horatio Greenough, portraitHoratio GreenoughÉtats-Unis, 1805–1852

George Washington

1840 · Sculpture · 345.4 × 259.1 cm

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George Washington, also known as Enthroned Washington, is a large marble sculpture by Horatio Greenough commissioned by the United States Congress on July 14, 1832 for the centennial of U.S. President George Washington's birth on February 22, 1732. Completed in 1840, the statue was soon exhibited in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol and then moved to the Capitol's east lawn in 1843. Since 1964, it has been in the National Museum of American History.

Horatio Greenough based Enthroned Washington on Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World which was destroyed in Late Antiquity.

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1910.10.3

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