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American Beauty Personified as the Nine Muses: Urania: Miss Josephine Blodgett, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Fagnani, Joseph 1819-1873  Search this
Subject:
Blodgett, Josephine  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 74.47
Date:
1860
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 115.
Summary:
Portrait of Miss Josephine Blodgett as Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, sitting next to a globe and holding a pointer in her right hand. She wears an azure blue robe fastened with a crescent, and on her head she wears a circlet of stars.
Topic:
Portrait female--Knee length  Search this
Mythology--Classical--Urania  Search this
Object--Other--Globe  Search this
Control number:
IAP 36120382
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_42160