DETAILS
- Artist
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Date
- 1545
- Medium
- Bronze
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Overall (confirmed): 14 7/8 × 7 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (37.8 × 18.1 × 15.9 cm)
- Collection
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Culture
- Italian, Florence
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
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