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Crouching Boar (Il Porcellino)
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Crouching Boar (Il Porcellino)

Pietro Tacca

late 17th or early 18th century

Medium

Bronze, dark patina and black varnish.

Tags

Boars

Dimensions

H. 16.5 cm.

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Metalwork-Bronze

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Pietro Tacca

1577–1640

Tacca was a skilled bronze caster and marble carver who worked in the Mannerist style of Giambologna. It was his technical and stylistic acumen in bronze, however that gained him the patronage of the Medici Dukes. He was granted the use for his lifetime of Giambologna studio by Cosimo II in 1616 and later served Ferdinand II as court artist in Spain. Comment on works: sculptor

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