LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gilt and patinated terracotta

Measurements:

61.26 in. (155.60 cm.) (height)

Literature:

Stuart J. Fleming and Doreen Stoneham, "Thermoluminescent Authenticity Study and Dating of Renaissance Terracottas", in Archaeometry, vol. 15, no. 2, July, 1973, pp. 239-247; Lorenzo Lorenzi, Agnolo di Polo: scultura in terracotta dipinta nella Firenze di fine Quattrocento, Ferrara, 1998; John Goldsmith Phillips, "A Sculpture by Agnolo di Polo", in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 30, no. 2, Oct. - Nov., 1971, pp. 80-93; Louis A. Waldman, "The Terracotta Sculptor Agnolo di Polo De' Vetri: the Prison, the Pievano, the Pratese, and the Cook", in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Florence, 2007

Provenance:

Gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970 (acc. no. 1971.44)