Standing boy
late 15th–early 16th century
Medium
Bronze, silver inlay (eyes), on a later porphyry and ormolu base
Dimensions
Overall without base (confirmed): 8 1/8 × 3 7/8 × 2 in. (20.6 × 9.8 × 5.1 cm) Overall with base (confirmed): 11 1/2 × 4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (29.2 × 10.5 × 8.3 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
Italian, probably Mantua
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.1402
Tags
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna|Andrea del Verrocchio · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was born around 1431 near Padua, in the Venetian Republic, the son of a carpenter. At approximately age eleven he was taken into the workshop of the Paduan painter and antiquities collector Francesco Squarcione, who enrolled him as a guild member and immersed him in the study of Roman sculpture and classical Latin. Though Mantegna later claimed that Squarcione had exploited his lab...