Attributed to Antonio Rossellino
1427-1479,
Bust of the Christ Child
Florence, Italy, 1460-1470
Marble, with nineteenth-century metal halo.
height: 18 7/8 inches (480 mm; with base) 15 1/8 inches (385 mm; without base) depth: 11 inches (280 mm) width: 15 3/8 inches (390 mm with base) 13 3/8 inches (340 mm without base); halo diameter: 8 1/2 inches (217 mm) column height: 49 1/4 inches (1250 mm)
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Count Cosimo degli Alessandri (1852-1894), Florence; Oscar Hainauer (1840-1894), Berlin, in 1877; his sale, London, 1906, S.4, plate 4; Duveen Brothers, London; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
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Bust of Christ Child on wooden base over column. The metal halo is modern.
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