Lady's Hand and Flowers
This marble sculpture of a diminutive female hand delicately resting on a bouquet of flowers was likely produced during the mid-nineteenth century, when carvings and casts of fragmentary parts of the human anatomy were popular. Although rendered with a neoclassical sense of idealization, hand sculptures were often personal and sentimental tributes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lady's Hand and Flowers
- Date: 1800–1900
- Culture: American
- Medium: Marble
- Dimensions: 4 1/4 x 12 x 7 in. (10.8 x 30.5 x 17.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, 1962
- Object Number: 62.139
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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