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The Sleeping Faun

Harriet Goodhue HosmerLinkedCulture matchlcp-8e825eedca89

Date: modeled 1864, carved c. 1870
Medium: marble
Culture: America
Department: American Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 159838

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Hosmer is the best known female member of a large group of American artists working in Italy during the mid-1800s. The Sleeping Faun , a depiction of a pointed-eared woodland spirit, demonstrates her mastery of the neoclassical style, which was inspired by the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Hosmer’s playful sense of humor infuses the composition: a half-human, half-goat satyr mischievously ties the unwitting faun’s animal skin garment to a tree stump. Hosmer said, "I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path. . . ."

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Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance: 1870s: Prince of Wales | Jacob Wakefield | Kendal Museum, Kendal, Cumbria, England | 1977: Sotheby's, London, sale, March 16, 1977 | Christopher Forbes, New York | [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York]