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The sculpture is a bust of a woman with detailed features, including a composed expression, smooth skin, and intricately styled hair. The subject is clothed in a draped garment that flows over her shoulders. The sculpture is made of white marble, giving it a clean appearance with a soft gloss. It appears life-sized, showcasing meticulous craftsmanship in the facial features and clothing folds. The bust is mounted on a square pedestal.
National Gallery of Art · Sculpture
Alice Key Pendleton
Hiram Powers
- Date
- model 1870, carved 1870
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- overall: 67.31 × 50.17 × 29.21 cm (26 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Sculpture · Bust
- Accession number
- 2015.19.3659
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Gift of Jane Frances Brice, 1936)
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- American
- carved
- bust facing right
- portrait
- Acquired after publication of European [and American] Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century
- Neoclassic
- Pendleton, Alice Key
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter's[1] husband, George Hunt Pendleton [1825-1889], Cincinnati; by inheritance to their daughter, Jane Frances Pendleton Brice [1860-1950, Mrs. Arthur Tilghman Brice]; gift April 1936 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Alice Key Pendleton (1823-1886), born Mary Alice Lloyd Nevins Key, was one of five daughters of Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer and author of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the niece of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She married the politician and diplomat George Hunt Pendleton in 1846.
Inscription
on back: H. POWERS / Sculp.
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