Edmonia LewisVerenigde Staten, 1844–1907Young Octavian
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington D.C., Verenigde Staten
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Over de sculptuur
Young Octavian, or Augustus, shows the adopted heir of Julius Caesar. It is a copy of a sculpture in the Vatican galleries that dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Many artists copied this piece, and it became so popular that tourists could even order reproductions from a catalogue. Edmonia Lewis’s version was considered to be one of the best available, as described by a descendant of one of her patrons: “[It] seemed to all of us the best reproduction of the original then offered by any artist in Rome.”
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- 1983.95.180
Wat het toont
In de catalogus
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Afbeelding: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
