Sculpture

Bust of the Sorrowing Virgin

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: first half of the 18th century
Accession number: 000.134
Maker: Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 30 × 24 × 14 in. (76.2 × 61 × 35.6 cm.)
Medium: painted and gilded wood with painted glass eyes on a wood base covered with velvet
Description: The bust portrays a grieving Madonna in supplication and prayer, with clasped hands and eyes turned toward the sky.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection.
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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