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A Madonna
Accession # 00.158
Artist William Ordway Partridge
Title A Madonna
Date ca. 1890
Medium Marble
Dimensions 25 x 24 x 16 in. (63.5 x 61 x 40.6 cm)
Inscriptions Written in pencil under proper right armpit: "[W.O.] Partridge [in script]" / W. ORDWAY PARTRID / [GE]"
Credit Line Gift of George Foster Peabody
Location Visible Storage: Case 4, Shelf O (Sculpture)
Description Bust-length statue of a idealized woman with her head tipped downward; her eyes are closed and she has a solemn expression; wears hood covering her head and falling down back, and a loose, double-layered garment wrapped around her body with V-shaped opening at chest.