TitleCircassian Girl
Artist
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
(1814 - 1889)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on wood
DimensionsUnframed: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.
Framed: 14 3/4 × 12 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number692-P
Label TextCircassian women became the subject of considerable fascination among Americans during the mid-nineteenth century. Considered the ideal Caucasian type, historically found in what is today southwestern Russia, their legendary beauty was famously exploited after Russian conquest of their homeland during mid-century forced them to flee into neighboring Turkey. Kellogg's familiarity with the Near East, illustrated here by the "Circassian Girl," encouraged Suydam to include the region on his extended Grand Tour during the early 1840s.
