Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis

by John Donoghue

Inscriptions

Marked on right side: "∑OOOK°H∑" (middle O had a vertical line running through it) Marked on left side: "∑A°AMI∑"

Exhibition history

Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum: Sculpture and Painting (Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), 57, cat. 454 (plaster version). Carolyn Kinder Carr, et al., Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1993), 157, 363 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: John Donoghue (American, 1853–1903) / Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, founded 1831) / Providence
Date: Modeled 1885, cast 1911
Medium: Bronze with green patina
Dimensions: 236.9 × 127 × 81.3 cm (93 1/4 × 50 × 32 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Place: Providence
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Accession no.: 1911.583

Provenance

Robert Allerton (1873–1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.