Minerva in a Chariot
ca. 1894
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 96.7 × 136.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-133547
In 1894, Abbott Thayer won a commission to create a large mosaic panel of the goddess Minerva for the Library of Congress, and he painted this oil sketch before executing the final version in glass. He was to receive $4000 for the completed project, but engineers and architects at the library quickly grew frustrated with Thayer’s unwillingness to comply with their instructions. After years of arg…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
Registry history
- ca. 1894 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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