IDENTIFIERS
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id:	31227
accession number:	M.7-1974

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Made for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese and by 1840 situated in a grotto in the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan; reputedly from a palazzo in Rome; purchased in England by Gallery Heim, London, and exhibited in their Autumn Exhibition, 1972, Paintings and Sculpture 1770-1830


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 Cunliffe, Perceval and Webb Funds, aided by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, the Pilgrim Trust and Grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31227

PEOPLE
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Penitent Magdalene

SUBJECTS
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reclining
reclining



TECHNIQUES
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marble
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1832 - 1832
creation date earliest:	1832
creation date latest:	1832
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Marchesi, Pompeo

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 106.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 160



CITATIONS
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Villa Lainate, Guide
'Il marmo e la parola. Precisazioni su Pompeo Marchesi'
La Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
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