Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
Randolph Rogers
1853–54; carved 1859
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
54 x 25 1/4 x 37 in. (137.2 x 64.1 x 94 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James Douglas, 1899
Accession Number
99.7.2
Tags
Girls
About the Artist
Randolph Rogers
Randolph Rogers (1825–1892) was a prominent American Neoclassical sculptor whose career bridged the worlds of popular genre sculpture and grand public commissions. Born on July 6, 1825, in Waterloo, New York, the son of a carpenter and millwright, Rogers grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after his family relocated westward in pursuit of opportunity. Showing early aptitude for drawing and wood engrav...