The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Saint Agnes (one of a pair)

Saint Agnes (one of a pair)

Date:: mid-16th century
Culture:: Spanish, Aragon (?)
Medium:: Alabaster, painted and gilt
Dimensions:: Overall (confirmed): H. 20 1/4 x W. 20 1/2 x D. 4 7/8 in. (51.4 x 52.1 x 12.4 cm); Diameter (historic dimensions, superceded): 21 in. (53.3 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934
Accession Number:: 34.34

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 535

Description

Agnes's attribute, the lamb, symbolized her purity and is also a pun on her name (the Latin word agnus means "lamb").
Provenance

Conde de las Almenas , Madrid (until 1927; Las Almenas sale, American Art Galleries, January 15, 1927, no. 344); [ French and Co., New York (by 1934; sold to MMA) ]
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