IDENTIFIERS
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id:	200915
accession number:	M.7-2014

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 24 February 2015
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Smaller than life-size bust of wood, carved in several sections, and polychromed over a white ground, with inlaid glass eyes, hair upper lashes, and three applied tears.  The sorrowing Virgin faces front. Her lips are slightly parted and she looks upwards slightly. A tear rolls down each of her cheeks and another has fallen onto the base of her neck. She wears a dull pale yellow dress and over her head has a dark blue cloak over another layer of fabric of a darker shade of yellow than her dress. The bust is attached to a shallow rectangular blackened wood plinth.
object type: polychromed wood, with glass eyes and tears, and hair eye lashes
title:	bust

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Private Collection, Spain, acquired by the owner's grandmother when she was young; sold by Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2013, European Sculpture & Works of Ar: Medieval to Modern, lot 99; Daniel Katz Ltd., London, from whom purchased.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Museum's acquisition funds, grants from The Art Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Gatsby Foundation,  the David Laing Foundation Trust, and the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and with private donations.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/200915

PEOPLE
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Virgin Mary




TECHNIQUES
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wood, carved in the round, in several pieces, and polychromed over a white ground, with inserted glass eyes and hair upper eye lashes; attached to a wooden plinth secured by two large wrought metal nails inserted through the bottom of the plinth upwards into the main body
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1670 - 1675
creation date earliest:	1670
creation date latest:	1675
culture:	17th Century, third quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Mena, Pedro de

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 19.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 33.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 31



CITATIONS
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Pedro de Mena Bust of Virgin
Recent acquisitions (2012-16) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700
The Arts of Spain, Iberia and Latin America 1450-1700
Pedro de Mena y Castilla
Pedro de Mena, Seventeenth-Century Spanish Sculptor
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