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Detail of Fisher Boy by Hiram Powers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2009
Fisher Boy
1841–44; carved 1857
Object Details
Title: Fisher Boy
Artist: Hiram Powers (American, Woodstock, Vermont 1805–1873 Florence)
Date: 1841–44; carved 1857
Culture: American
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 57 1/2 x 19 x 16 in. (146.1 x 48.3 x 40.6 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Bequest of Hamilton Fish, 1894
Accession Number: 94.9.
Powers modeled Fisher Boy in Florence, Italy, where he earned an international reputation for his idealized subjects. In calling this figure “a kind of Appollino,” he referred to ancient Greek depictions of Apollo as the epitome of male youth. However, rather than present his only male nude in a mythological guise, the longtime expatriate sculptor insisted on cloaking it in a modern genre subject—a young fisherman’s use of a conch shell to listen for warnings of inclement weather. Half-buried shells carved on the base suggest an ocean setting.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11791
1841–44; carved 1857
Object Details
Title: Fisher Boy
Artist: Hiram Powers (American, Woodstock, Vermont 1805–1873 Florence)
Date: 1841–44; carved 1857
Culture: American
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 57 1/2 x 19 x 16 in. (146.1 x 48.3 x 40.6 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Bequest of Hamilton Fish, 1894
Accession Number: 94.9.
Powers modeled Fisher Boy in Florence, Italy, where he earned an international reputation for his idealized subjects. In calling this figure “a kind of Appollino,” he referred to ancient Greek depictions of Apollo as the epitome of male youth. However, rather than present his only male nude in a mythological guise, the longtime expatriate sculptor insisted on cloaking it in a modern genre subject—a young fisherman’s use of a conch shell to listen for warnings of inclement weather. Half-buried shells carved on the base suggest an ocean setting.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11791
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