Lady Macbeth (sculpture)

Lady Macbeth
Detail of the statue
ArtistElisabet Ney
Year1905 (1905)
MediumMarble
SubjectLady Macbeth
Dimensions187.2 cm × 65.4 cm × 75.0 cm (73.75 in × 25.75 in × 29.5 in)
LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., United States
Accession1998.79

Lady Macbeth is a statue of the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth by German American sculptor Elisabet Ney. The sculpture is a life-size full-length female figure rendered in marble. Completed in 1905, Lady Macbeth is one of Ney's last works and was regarded by the artist as her masterpiece.:219 It is housed in Washington, D.C., in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which acquired the piece in 1998.