IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 200915 accession number: M.7-2014 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 24 February 2015 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/200915 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1675 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1675 culture: 17th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Mena, Pedro de DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 19.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 33.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 31 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/m_7_2014_01_201410_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_m_7_2014_01_201410_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/m_7_2014_01_201410_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_m_7_2014_01_201410_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/m_7_2014_02_201410_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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