Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001961Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
Inscriptions
Inscribed on the back: "HARRIET HOSMER / FECIT ROMAE"
Provenance
Conner-Rosenkranz, New York, by 1993; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.
Publications
“Harriet Hosmer,” Cosmopolitan Art Journal 3 (Dec. 1859), 214–17. “Art: Harriet Hosmer’s Zenobia,” Atlantic Monthly 15 (Feb. 1865), 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), 174–77, cat. 78 (ill.). Sarah E. Kelly, “Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, no. 1 (2004), 8–9 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Harriet Hosmer (American, 1830–1908)
- Date
- modeled c. 1859; carved after 1859
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 86.4 × 57.2 × 31.8 cm (34 × 22 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
- Accession no.
- 1993.260
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