Innocence Protected by Fidelity
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
Height: 32 1/4 in. (81.9 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
Italian, Rome
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Lewis M. Rutherford, 1930
Accession Number
30.143.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
GirlsDogs
About the Artist
Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 1809–1873
**Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873)** was an Italian neoclassical sculptor renowned for his elegant marble figures that captured the refined tastes of 19th-century collectors on the Grand Tour. Born on August 28, 1809, in the small mountain village of Songavazzo near Bergamo to a family of modest means, Benzoni began his working life as a shepherd and then as an apprentice carpenter in his uncle’...