English: The Angel of Purity (Maria Mitchell Memorial).
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English: A monument in remembrance of Maria Gouverneur Mitchell (died 1898 aged 22 years), commissioned by her parents Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell and Mary Cadwalader Mitchell for St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, where their daughter taught children's classes. Saint-Gaudens based the sculpture on an earlier bronze figure, Amor Caritas, which he had created for the Musée d'Orsay, Paris; another version of this is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The features of the angel were modelled after those of his mistress, Davida Clark.
2005: Acquired using the Annenberg Fund for Major Acquisitions, gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Wharton Sinkler and Mrs. T. Charlton Henry (by exchange), and funds contributed by the Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Foundation of Pennsylvania II, Inc.
Inscriptions
top: "BLESSED ARE THE / PURE IN HEART FOR / THEY SHALL SEE GOD"; bottom: "IN MEMORY OF / MARIA GOUVERNEUR MITCHELL / BORN MARCH XXI MDCCCLXXVI [March 21, 1876] / DIED JANUARY XXIV MDCCCXCVIII [January 24, 1898]".
Own work; photographed by Smuconlaw on 3 May 2012, 15:14.
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