The Vincentiana Collection in Archives/Special Collections at DePaul University’s John T. Richardson Library has recently acquired this 1947 press photo. The text reads:

“SCULPTURE READIED FOR ST. PETER’S BASILICA ROME: Professor A. Silva, official Vatican artist puts the finishing touches to the head of the sculpture of the recently canonized Louise de Marillac, founder of the order of the Sisters of Charity. The statue, which is made after model at top right, will be twenty feet high, in accordance with the normal size of statutes in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will be erected.”

ACME Photo by Julius Humi, Staff Correspondent, 9/27/47