Selected Works
Hosmer made both large and small scale works and also produced work to specific order. Her smaller works were frequently issued in multiples to accommodate demand. Among her most popular were 'Beatrice Cenci', which exists in several versions.
- Daphne and Medusa, ideal heads (1853)
- Puck (1855), a spirited and graceful conception which she copied for the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Hamilton and others
- Oenone (1855), her first life-sized figure, now in the Saint Louis Art Museum
- Beatrice Cenci (1857), for the St. Louis Mercantile Library
- Zenobia - Queen of Palmyra, 1857
- Zenobia in Chains (1859), owned by the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California
- A Sleeping Faun (1867) is now being displayed at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Another version is in Iveagh House, Dublin, see Homan Potterton, 'An American Sculpture at the Dublin Exhibition of 1865: Hariet Hosmer's Sleeping Faun', The Arts in Ireland Autumn 1973.
- A Waking Faun; a bronze statue of Thomas H. Benton (1868) for Lafayette Park, St. Louis
- Bronze gates for the Earl of Brownlow's art gallery at Ashridge Hall
- A siren fountain for Lady Marian Alford
- An alternate Emancipation Memorial -- designed but not constructed
- Statues of the queen of Naples as the heroine of Gaeta, and of Queen Isabella of Spain for the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- The Mermaid's Cradle, bronze, Fountain Square, Larchmont, New York
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