Child Clasping a Bird
North Italian 16th or 17th Century
late 16th or early 17th century
Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
Dimensions
overall: 7.6 x 5.2 x 3.7 cm (3 x 2 1/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.49
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
North Italian 16th or 17th Century
The designation North Italian 16th or 17th Century encompasses the many unidentified painters and sculptors active across the prosperous city-states of Northern Italy, from Venice and the Veneto to Lombardy, Brescia, and Parma, during the shift from High Renaissance splendor to early Baroque drama. Early life is not well documented for these creators, who typically trained and produced within larg...