Over a grave

This woman with a melancholic look on her face and her hair coveredh, gives the impression of being deeply immersed in her thoughts, which may reflect the passing and loss of a loved one. The manner of presenting the sitting, freely-posed figure derives from the works of Michelangelo, as well as later Roman sepulchral sculpture of the Baroque period, with which the author of the work – an artist educated in Kraków, Vienna and Rome – was very familiar. An uneasy arrangement of a heavy, exquisitely carved fabric breaks the static character of the composition. Henryk Struve, a philosopher and a leading representative of 19th–century Polish art criticism, noted that the statue "combines simplicity and naturalness with calmness and seriousness". The National Museum in Kraków Inventory number: MNK II-rz-246 Creator: Antoni Pleszowski (1859–1889) Time of creation: 1887 (model), 1896 (cast) https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/3 Digitalisation: RDW MIC Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab