Harriet Hosmer
American, 1830-1908
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, c. 1857
Marble
86.4 x 57.2 x 31.8 cm (34 x 22 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscribed on the back: "HARRIET HOSMER / FECIT ROMAE"
Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1993.260
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
“Harriet Hosmer,” Cosmopolitan Art Journal 3 (Dec. 1859), pp. 214–17.
“Art: Harriet Hosmer’s Zenobia,” Atlantic Monthly 15 (Feb.1865), pp. 248–50.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 174–77, no. 78.
Sarah E. Kelly, “Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 8-9 (ill.).
Ownership History
Conner-Rosenkranz, New York, by 1993; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.