Young Lady Mask - Item #303

  11 Inches High x 7.5 Inches Wide x 4.5 Inches Deep This mask is from Young Lady Bust #416. The young lady, with her head slightly turned to her right, wears a two-piece headband in her styled, wavy hair. This beautifully-rendered mask can be used as decoration or a great art study.  American sculptor Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819-1904) created this bust in 1862 in Paris as inscribed on the back of the socle base. Greenough was one of Boston’s foremost neoclassical sculptors in the mid-19th century and younger brother to sculptor Horatio Greenough. His most notable work is the statue of Benjamin Franklin (installed in 1856) situated outside Boston’s Old City Hall; it was the first portrait statue in Boston. Greenough and fellow American sculptor Thomas Ball each created two reliefs for the pedestal that depict scenes in Franklin’s life. Greenough’s work was not always in the neoclassical style nor of the content like his brother’s. Greenough’s fondness for contemporary styles an