Peri at the Gates of Paradise
model 1854, carved by 1859
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall with base: 175.26 × 71.12 × 50.8 cm (69 × 28 × 20 in.) base: 10.16 × 42.86 × 45.09 cm (4 × 16 7/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)
Accession Number
2014.136.281
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Thomas Crawford · 1813–1857
**Thomas Crawford (1814–1857)** was a leading American neoclassical sculptor whose monumental works helped shape the artistic identity of the United States Capitol. Born Thomas Gibson Crawford in New York City on March 22, 1814, he began his artistic training by studying drawing at the National Academy of Design and learning wood carving and stonecutting in the studio of John Frazee and Robert Lau...