BK-1965-21
Medium
terracotta
Dimensions
10.5; 27; 22
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
signature and date, left on the base, in the wet clay: ‘I:B:XAVERY / 1726’
About the Artist
Jan Baptist Xavery · 1697–1742
**Jan Baptist Xavery** (1697–1742) was a Flemish sculptor born in Antwerp who became the leading figure in sculpture in the Dutch Republic during the first half of the eighteenth century. He worked across a wide range of media and scales, from intimate ivory and terracotta statuettes for private collectors to monumental garden statues, portrait busts, church furnishings, and elaborate tomb monumen...