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Jay C12/06/2019 4:50:42 pm PST

re: #154 prairiefire

I noticed the lady is well clothed. Is that marble with a cast iron bug?

If that’s a recent photo, probably not: Wikipedia says the original (stone, with a metal [likely bronze? iron?] weevil - added later) was replaced in 1998 after repeated vandalism damaged the statue. The existing piece is resin (composition of bug not mentioned).

ADD: OK: the original BWM was described as “metal” - and the “Greek lady“‘s basin originally had a fountain spraying out of it. Later replaced with the weevil (several times).
But: DD: probably not Saint-Gaudens: the monument’s organizer is said to have ordered it from Italy.