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Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Bust of St. Mary Magdalen
Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Bust of St. Mary Magdalen

Artist Alceo Dossena (Italian, 1878 - 1937)
CultureItalian
Datebefore 1929
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 28 1/2 x 18 x 13 in. (72.4 x 45.7 x 33 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Mr. Morrie A. Moss, Molly Guron, Edna & H.G. Miller, Miss Clara Neely, James Perry, Mrs. John D. Gordon, Jr., Alice Grosboix, and Membership Funds
Object number78.641
Not on view
DescriptionWhite marble sculpture. Weeping (3 tears) woman. Bust with head cocked to right. Torso length covered with highly carved hair. Upraised hands in front.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Randolph Rogers
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
No Date
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Chauncey Bradley Ives
modeled ca. 1880-82
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
18th century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Hiram Powers
modeled 1852
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Hiram Powers
modeled ca. 1860, carved ca. 1865–66
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.
Margaret Foley
1875
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Hiram Powers
modeled 1867, carved ca. 1871
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
15th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Pierre LeGros
17th century