Sedící dívka, sandstone statue in Kampa Park, Prague, Czech Republic
Sedící dívka, also called Jarmila, is a sandstone sculpture of a slender girl sitting on a stone, created by academic sculptor Jan Hána. It stands on a low block pedestal in Kampa Park on Kampa Island in Malá Strana, Prague.
Sculptor Jan Hána (1927–1994) carved the sandstone figure in 1958, inspired by Jarmila, the woman waiting by a lake in Karel Hynek Mácha's poem Máj; Hána visited the Jarmila rock at Máchovo jezero, 70 km north of Prague, for inspiration. The statue was first set up by the Vltava, where floods damaged it, so in 1965 it was moved to Kampa Park and in 1977 restored.
The statue is known as Jarmila, after the character in Karel Hynek Mácha's poem Máj who waits by a lake for her lover. Jan Hána admired the poem in his youth and visited the Jarmila rock by Máchovo jezero, 70 km north of Prague, for inspiration.
The sandstone statue stands on a low block plinth in Kampa Park on Kampa Island in Malá Strana, Prague 1, a short walk from the Vltava bank. It is reached on foot through the park paths; the site is open ground with no barrier around the plinth.
Hána repeatedly visited the Jarmila rock on the shore of Máchovo jezero, 70 km north of Prague, to draw inspiration for the figure. The finished 1958 sculpture was not placed there, but in a shady grove by the Vltava, where floods damaged it; it was moved to Kampa Park in 1965 and restored in 1977.
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