The Tomb Effigy of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck is a life-sized funerary sculpture created in 1891 by Frank Duveneck after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Boott Duveneck. A cast of the work (made in 1927) is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It shows Elizabeth lying peacefully with her arms folded, in the traditional style of a recumbent tomb effigy inspired by Gothic and Renaissance sculpture. A long palm branch rests across her body, symbolizing Christian victory over death and the idea that death is temporary.
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