LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Carrara marble raised on a lévanto rouge marble revolving pedestal

Size Notes:

Sculpture; pedestal: 66 cm

Markings:

signed C. B. IVES FECIT ROMAE

Literature:

William H. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection, New York, 1973, pp. 88-9. Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1984 ed., p. 287. Joy S. Kasson, Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture, New Haven, Connecticut and London, 1990, pp. 168-73. Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, Norfolk, Virginia, 2005, no. 68, pp. 112-13

Provenance:

Christie's New York, May 18, 2004, lot 31, illustrated