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American Beauty Personified as the Nine Muses: Calliope: Miss Lizzie Wadsworth, (painting). Artist:  Fagnani, Joseph, 1819-1873, painter. Title:  American Beauty Personified as the Nine Muses: Calliope: Miss Lizzie Wadsworth, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1869. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  43 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (110.5 x 85.1 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) J. F. (Upper left:) KAAAIOIIH signed Description:  Portrait of Miss Lizzie Wadsworth as Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, holding a partially unrolled manuscript of the Iliad in her right hand and a trumpet in her left hand. Subject:  Portrait female -- Wadsworth, Lizzie -- Waist length Mythology -- Classical -- Calliope Literature -- Homer -- Iliad Object -- Musical Instrument -- Trumpet Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 74.43 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Fagnani, Joseph, until 1873. Sommerville Gallery, New York, New York 1873. Remarks:  This series of portraits of American society women depicted as the nine muses of classical antiquity is a tribute to the varied beauty of American Women. The series was completed in 1869. Each painting has the Greek name for the muse painted at the upper left. References:  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. 113. Illustration:  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. 113. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120374   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120374 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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