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Hosmer is the best known female member of a large group of American artists working in Italy during the mid-1800s. <em>The Sleeping Faun</em>, a depiction of a pointed-eared woodland spirit, demonstrates her mastery of the neoclassical style, which was inspired by the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Hosmer's playful sense of humor infuses the composition: a half-human, half-goat satyr mischievously ties the unwitting faun's animal skin garment to a tree stump.</div>
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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer</div>
modeled 1864, carved c. 1870
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