Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hope
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1866
Hiram Powers sculpted this marble bust to personify Hope. A pious patron commissioned it, along with two others representing Faith and Charity, to embody the central virtues of Christianity.
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