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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2143162, member: 5833&quot;]This brings back memories of how my father always impugned a sculpture my mother bought as looking like it came off a grave.&nbsp; He was not completely wrong.&nbsp; A small child holding a rather limp looking bird to her is an appropriate image for a child&#039;s grave.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]251847[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]251848[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This fifth century BC stele was on the grave of a little girl:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/252890" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/252890" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Doves/MMAStele.PNG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>However, by pure chance, learned a few years ago that my mother&#039;s, now my, sculpture is a reduced version of Francis Chantrey&#039;s life size statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Hamilton,_Duchess_of_Abercorn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Hamilton,_Duchess_of_Abercorn" rel="nofollow">Lady Louisa Jane Russell</a>, who did not die as a child.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it was revealed in the television series Boardwalk Empire that the main character had lost a child, the headstone shown for the grave had this image:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]251850[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Bertel Thorvaldsen&#039;s Night, companion piece to his Day, not a funerary image at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, not all art that looks suitable for a grave monument originated for that purpose &amp; there are other reasons for a female figure to look weary or sad.&nbsp; In this case, because I think I see ivy trailing round, I would tell people that this is Ariadne after Theseus abandons her on the island of Naxos &amp; stick to that story until I found a better one.&nbsp; I like her very much too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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