Portrait of a Woman
- Date
- 1873
- Material
- Marble
- made in
- Rome, Lazio region, Italy, Europe
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 336
- Dimensions
- without base: 23 × 16 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (58.4 × 41.9 × 28.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Minority Artists Purchase Fund and partial gift of Thurlow E. Tibbs Jr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 1:1997
NOTES
Soft facial features, a delicately carved lace bodice, and wavy hair adorned with a flower communicate not only the taste and beauty of the unknown sitter, but also Edmonia Lewis’s skill as a sculptor. Lewis’s successful early career helped her finance a move to Rome in 1867, where she lived among fellow American women sculptors, including Harriet Hosmer. There, Lewis was the first American of color to gain international fame as a sculptor, and she completed many portrait commissions for visiting tourists and patrons in the United States.
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