Dancing children (one of a pair)
Donatello|French Painter
1770–90
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 17 1/2 × 31 1/8 in. (44.5 × 79.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings-Decorative
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Accession Number
07.225.251a
Tags
ChildrenDancing
About the Artist
Donatello|French Painter · 1380–1466
Important and very influential Florentine sculptor in the media of marble, bronze, and wood. Although he himself was not not a cultured intellectual (as was typical for artists of his generation and earlier), he associated with early Renaissance humanists in Florence, Rome, and Padua. In his art, he made new references to Antique forms, and to this added new expressive and technical virtuousity to...