About the Artwork
Saint Agnes
1894
Alfred Drury
1856-1944
English
Unknown
Terracotta, gilded and painted
Overall (bust): 13 5/8 × 8 3/8 × 8 3/8 inches (34.6 × 21.3 × 21.3 cm) Overall (base): 5 × 7 7/8 inches (12.7 × 20 cm) Including base: 18 5/8 × 8 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (47.3 × 21.3 × 20 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
1985.19
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Markings
Signed and dated, on left of base: A. Drury 1894
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Provenance
(Bruton Gallery Ltd.)
1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Spielmann, M.H. British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today. London, 1901, p. 111 (ill.).
Beattie, S. The New Sculpture. New Haven and London, 1983, pp. 109,111,113, 173-174, (pl. 169).
"Reattributions." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): p. 23.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Alfred Drury, Saint Agnes, 1894, terracotta, gilded and painted. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 1985.19.
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