Third version, on view at A. T. Stewart’s home, New York, 1869–86

Third version, on view at A. T. Stewart’s home, New York, 1869–86

In 1867, A. T. Stewart began building on Fifth Avenue and Thirty-Fourth Street a mansion that incorporated a private art gallery. The Greek Slave was moved into the building around 1869, alongside Stewart’s substantial collection of marble statuary, which included two versions of Powers’s Eve, as well as works by Thomas Crawford, Randolph Rogers, Marshall Wood, and Joseph Durham. The statues became known as the “Stewart statues.” Upon Stewart’s death in 1876, his widow, Cornelia Stewart, continued to live in the mansion, and the gallery appears to have remained open to a limited public. (See Martina Droth’s essay.)

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Adolph Witteman, “A. T. Stewart Mansion”, New York, 1882. Photograph. Museum of the City of New York, New York.
Adolph Witteman, “A. T. Stewart Mansion”, New York, 1882. Photograph. Museum of the City of New York, New York. Adolph Witteman, “A. T. Stewart Mansion”, New York, 1882. Photograph. Museum of the City of New York, New York.