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Cordelia
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Pierce Francis Connelly modeled Cordelia after his elder sister, Adeline. Cordelia is the youngest daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear. In the play, Cordelia, the aging monarch’s only loyal child, battles to save her father’s kingdom. The Smithsonian Institution used this sculpture as a model for the faces of all the first lady mannequins in the National Museum of American History.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineCordelia. 1865. Pierce Francis Connelly, born Grand Coteau 1841-died Rome, Italy 1932. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Florence Ebbs. CC0.
