La Pia Contrita or Maddalena, by Pompeo Marchesi

An image of La Pia Contrita or Maddalena. Marchesi, Pompeo, sculptor (Italian, 1789-1858, Milan). Figure of a partly draped nude woman with long hair dressed in Grecian style, seated on two rounded rectangular cushions, with her left leg extended behind her and her right bent up underneath her, She leans forward and rests her right elbow on a cushion in front of her, holding her right hand up to the right side of her jaw and neck. Her left arm, partly covered by her drapery, is extended in front of the cushion, and she gazes upwards. White marble, carved in the round, 1832. Neoclassical. Production Note: Executed for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese.

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La Pia Contrita or Maddalena. Marchesi, Pompeo, sculptor (Italian, 1789-1858, Milan). Figure of a partly draped nude woman with long hair dressed in Grecian style, seated on two rounded rectangular cushions, with her left leg extended behind her and her right bent up underneath her, She leans forward and rests her right elbow on a cushion in front of her, holding her right hand up to the right side of her jaw and neck. Her left arm, partly covered by her drapery, is extended in front of the cushion, and she gazes upwards. White marble, carved in the round, 1832. Neoclassical. Production Note: Executed for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese.

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Accession Number: M.7-1974
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 793 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 88.55kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:01:27 14:45:54

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