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TitleWhite Captive

Creator namePalmer, Erasmus Dow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1859

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

Dimensions65 × 20 1/4 × 17 in. (165.1 × 51.4 × 43.2 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11680

Accession number94.9.3

SubjectsFemale nude in artCaptivity narratives in artSculpture, American--19th centuryMarble sculpture, American--19th century

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4. Between Two Worlds: The White Captive

Joy S. Kasson

Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture

The tremendous popularity of The Greek Slave inspired other American sculptors to explore the subject of the endangered but ennobled female captive. Striving for artistic recognition and social respectability, these sculptors created works that told stories of fear and desire. Captive women, caught between two worlds, raised the question of the stability of...

Author

Joy S. Kasson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.73-100

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31603&redirecttoanchor=25413

Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryWomen and gender in art--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--Classical influencesPowers, Hiram, 1805-1873. Greek slavePalmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904Captivity narratives in art

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16824&redirecttoanchor=25413

Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

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