DETAILS
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
- Date
- 1748
- Medium
- White marble (Sost, the French Pyrenees)
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Overall (confirmed): 29 7/8 × 18 5/8 × 11 3/8 in. (75.9 × 47.3 × 28.9 cm)
- Collection
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Credit line
- The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
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