Pietà and Dancing Putti
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Not on view at present
Where is “Pietà and Dancing Putti” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
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- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
This plaster relief and frieze were models for the Portland stone altar frieze in the Earl Kitchener Memorial Chapel, Chapel of All Souls, St. Paul's Cathedral, which was installed in 1925. The composition of A.40A-1975 is based on Donatello's 'Cantoria', now in the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, Florence.
Both are made by Sir William Reid Dick in England in 1923. Granville Fell considered the monument to be 'one of his [Reid Dick's] most important monumental works, commemorative and memorial, more or less associated with its architectural surroundings...'.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
- Accession number
- A.40-1975
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
