Sculpture
- Title:
- Ruth the Gleaner
- Object Name:
- Sculpture
- Object ID:
- 1922.007.01
- Creator:
- Lombardi, Giovanni Battista (1823-1880)
- Place of Origin:
- Italy
- Date:
- circa 1868
- Description:
- Sculpture. Ruth the Gleaner, by Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880), c. 1868. White marble. Full-length female figure is seated on a striated rock formation, which rises 19" above integral circular base at rear and is partially concealed by foliage. Subject's head tilted down and to her right; pupils and iris of eyes not defined; hair in loose chignon. Wearing a striped garment in which vertically oriented, narrow, textured strips alternate with wide, smooth ones; wide sash tied at front of waist with tasseled ends hanging at right side; scarf wrapped around top of head with fringed ends trailing down back. Left shoulder, right leg, and feet bare. Several stalks and ears of grain held at left side using both hands. Two threaded brass octagonal inserts, on vertical surface of base at right and left, into one of which is screwed a threaded handle in form of an acorn. Lower edge of base somewhat chipped. On separate two-piece cylindrical white marble pedestal; top section rotates on steel turntable.
- Material:
- Stone
Marble - Dimensions:
- H-49.5 Dia-19.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Formerly in the Concord, NH, home of Benjamin Ames Kimball (1883-1920) at 44 South Main Street. See NH Notables file in library re Kimball, who was a banker, manufacturer, railroad official, art collector, and prominent member of the NHHS.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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