id:			159838
accession number:	1997.15
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.15
updated:		2024-04-11 11:01:48.759000

The Sleeping Faun, modeled 1864, carved c. 1870. Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American, 1830–1908). Marble; overall: 127 cm (50 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1997.15

title:				The Sleeping Faun
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series:				
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creation date:			modeled 1864, carved c. 1870
creation date earliest:		1864
creation date latest:		1870
current location:		206 American Landscape
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	marble
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American, 1830–1908)  - sculptor

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measurements: Overall: 127 cm (50 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed and inscribed on base: "H HOSMER Fecit -- Romae"; titled on base: "THE SLEEPING FAUN"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Universale ed Eterna
	opening date:   2003-03-05T00:00:00
	<i>Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Universale ed Eterna</i>. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (organizer) (March 5-June 29, 2003).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1989-1996.', 'opening_date': '1989-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Scudiere del Quirinale (3/5/2003 - 6/29/2003): "Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all\'Unita d\'Italia: Il Mito Classico e Christiano", figure XII.10, p. 275.', 'opening_date': '2003-03-05T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Prince of Wales
	date: 1870s   
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	Jacob Wakefield
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	Kendal Museum, Kendal, Cumbria, England
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	Sotheby's, London, sale, March 16, 1977
	date: 1977    
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	Christopher Forbes, New York
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	[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York]
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ausherman, Maria, <em>Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors. </em>(Novato, CA: Goff Books, 2022).
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced p. 65.
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Neoclassical Marble, Rare Korean Sculpture, Other Recent CMA Acquisitions Now on View,” April 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4117

	<em>Maestá di Roma: Universale ed Eterna,Capitale delle Arte</em>. Electa: Rome, 2003.
	page number: 	Fig. XII.10, p. 275.
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	Whiteley, Jon and Linda Whiteley. "Majesty of Rome." <em>The Burlington Magazine </em>1205 (Aug. 2003), fig. 83, p. 610, repr. p. 610.
	page number: 	610
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	Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. pg. 84-86.
	page number: 	84-86
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	Cole, Mark. "New Spaces in the Cleveland Museum of Art," <em>American Art</em> 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010).illus. p. 16.
	page number: 	16
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	Cole, Mark. "The Sleeping Faun." In <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by David Franklin and C. Griffith Mann. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; London: Scala, 2012. p. 264; illus. p. 265.
	page number: 	264, illus. 265
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	Dabakis, Melissa. <em>A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome</em>. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. p. 237, note 76.
	page number: 	237
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 20
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