By Joseph Mozier
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Il Penseroso, 1866
Carrara marble
Height 55 ½ in. (141.0 cm.), width 17 in. (43.2 cm.), depth 17 in. (43.2 cm.)
First example carved in Rome, spring/summer 1866 (now Smithsonian Institution ); this example also carved in Rome, fall 1866
Incscribed on side of base: J[oseph]. MOZIER. Sc[ulpsit]. / ROME 186 ;
Inscribed on front of base: IL PENSEROSO
Provenance, Private Collection, Mexico City
John Milton’s great seventeenth-century poem, Il Penseroso, inspired at least three capital American sculptures, more than two centuries after its composition. The first was a good but somewhat uncharacteristic full-length marble (in a private collection, Washington) by Hiram Powers (1805-1873); the second was a very fine bust by William Henry Rinehart...
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19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Joseph Mozier Furniture