The Lost Pleiad in the Brooklyn Museum, August 2007

Accession # 09.770
Artist: Randolph Rogers
Title: The Lost Pleiad
Date: ca. 1874-1875
Medium: Marble
Dimensions Statue: 49 3/4 x 23 1/4 x 34 1/2 in. (126.4 x 59.1 x 87.6 cm) Height of pedestal: 35 3/8 in. (89.9 cm)
Signed Inscribed along back of base: "Randolph Rogers Rome."
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. L. Barclay
Location: American Identities: Expanding Horizons

Description: Statue of partially nude female personification of one of the Pleiad stars. Figure leans forward in motion and turns head to proper left with hand held over eyes in seeking gesture, holds proper right arm stretched out behind her; her legs are raised behind her as if she is floating through the air and the figure is supported atop round base of cloud-like forms; she wears loose drapery that falls from proper right shoulder, wraps around her body below her breasts, and comes to a pile below her legs; she has long, wavy hair pulled into a ponytail with several loose strands; inscribed along front edge of round base: "THE LOST PLEIAD."

Condition: Good, missing the ends of four fingers of proper right hand; few chunks of ends of hair in ponytail missing; some black stains on back of clouds.

Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/luce/object.php?id=16018