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This head of a boy has hair that is broken and worn, and covered with dirt. The face is clean, possibly recut. The piece is broken at the neck. It is probably a forgery.

H: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)

medium: black basalt

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

art.thewalters.org/detail/1284

Left foot of "The White Captive" 1860 by museado

Palmer, who was self-taught, was among the first American sculptors to break with the prevailing neoclassical style and adopt a more naturalistic approach.

This plaster is of the left foot only of Palmer's sculpture "The White Captive." Palmer created a separate foot carved in marble in early 1860, carved by Charles Calverley, and that at least two plaster versions were also made. One is now at the Walters, and the other, which was formerly owned by Henry T. Tuckerman of New York, is now lost.

This plaster foot was found in the Walters' townhouse, at 5 West Mount Vernon Place, in the 1940s. Although no documentation relating to the foot has come to light, it is likely that it was acquired by, or given to William T. Walters around the time it was made. William purchased a bust of Flora from the artist and a full-length subject of a child, titled "First Grief." A daguerreotype of Palmer's "Sleeping Peri" is in the museum's archive, and was also found at 5 West Mount Vernon place.

H: 6 × W: 4 13/16 × D: 10 13/16 in. (15.2 × 12.3 × 27.5 cm)

medium: plaster

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [accessioned in 1941].

art.thewalters.org/detail/9232

url-59 by Leila Fakouri