Alice Key Pendleton, model 1870, carved 1870

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 67.31 × 50.17 × 29.21 cm (26 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Jane Frances Brice)

Accession Number

2015.19.3659

Artists / Makers

Hiram Powers (sculptor) American, 1805 - 1873

Image Use

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Inscription

on back: H. POWERS / Sculp.

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.

Associated Names

Brice, Jane Frances Pendleton
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Pendleton, George Hunt

Exhibition History

2007: Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 18 May - 12 August 2007, no. 31, repros. (credit line incorrect in caption to detail fig. 12).

Bibliography

2007: Reynolds, Rebecca. "Hiram Powers' Technique: The Art of Seizing a Likeness in Marble." Antiques & Fine Art (Summer 2007): 146, fig. 7..