DETAILS
- Artist
- John Flaxman
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Jasperware
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Height: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
- Collection
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Culture
- British, Etruria, Staffordshire
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1908
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THE ARTIST
John Flaxman
John Flaxman, a leading figure in British Neoclassicism, sculpted funerary monuments and created iconic illustrations for Homer and Dante.
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