Catalog Entry by Marjorie E. Wieseman

Seated in a landscape on a rocky formation is an older woman wearing a pale rose dress with a white drapery wrapped over her left shoulder and across her lap; her head and shoulders are covered by a thin yellow veil. She turns her worried face to the genius that hovers overhead in a swirl of drapery. The genius holds in his left hand a large hooplike form and with his right extends the end of a cord held also by the old woman. The cord crosses the woman's lap and is grasped by the putto standing at her knee; two additional putti carry the cord in the foreground of the scene. Pink roses are strung along the middle segment of the cord's length...

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