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, Irish, 1820-1901
Title
The Blind Girl at Castle Cuille
Date1876/1880
MediumMarble
Dimensions
73.5 x 45.5 x 29.5 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 1971
Object numberNGI.8083
Exhibition HistoryTrove, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 3 December 2014 - 8 March 2015
Label TextThis work was based on Jacques Jasmin’s Romantic poem L’aveugle de Castel-Culier (1835), which H.W. Longfellow translated in the 1870s. When the poem’s heroine, Marguerite, is blinded by smallpox, her fiancé abandons her to marry another. On witnessing their exchange of vows, she dies broken-hearted in church. Lawlor was based in London, where he worked on imaginative pieces and large-scale public projects, including a group entitled Engineering for the Albert Memorial.