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Innocence Protected by Fidelity

A pendant group, Riconoscenza, depicts a girl repaying her faithful dog by extracting a thorn from its paw.

Credit: Gift of the Estate of Lewis M. Rutherford, 1930

1852
Marble
81.9cm
30.143.2
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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