Old Beggar Carrying Child

Publications

Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (2001), pp. 7-8, 12, fig. 7. Ian Wardropper, "Sculpture and Mosaic in Pietre Dure" Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, exh. cat., ed. Wolfram Koeppe and Annamaria Giusti (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008), pp. 80, 83, fig. 86. Scott Defrin, "Recognizing the Hand of Simon Troger (1683-1768)" in Barocke Kunststückh: Festschrift für Christian Theuerkauff, ed. Regine Marth and Marjorie Trusted (Munich, 2011), pp. 180, 184.

Quick Overview

Artist: Simon Troger (Austrian, 1683–1768)
Date: c. 1735–c. 1750
Medium: Ivory, wood, glass, and leather
Dimensions: H.: 53.3 cm (21 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: statuette
Style: 18th Century
Place: Austria
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Jane B. Tripp Endowment
Accession no.: 1991.641

Provenance

Morris I. Kaplan (died 1966), Chicago; heirs of Morris I. Kaplan; his son Stuart M. Kaplan, Chicago; sold by him to the Art Institute, 1991.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.