DETAILS
- Artist
- Sir Francis Chantrey
- Date
- 1823
- Medium
- Marble
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- wt. confirmed: 31 × 22 × 11 in., 160 lb. (78.7 × 55.9 × 27.9 cm, 72.6 kg)
- Collection
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Culture
- British
- Credit line
- Wrightsman Fund, 1994
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