AT-00010883
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Head of Christ
Inscriptions
Signed in cut of right proper shoulder: "J. Clesinger, 1867"; inscribed in cut of left proper shoulder: "POUSSIELGUE RUSAND PARIS"; struck immediately above circular base: "17662"
Provenance
Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Clésinger (French, 1814–1883)
- Date
- 1867
- Medium
- silvered bronze, marble base
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38 x 19.2 x 21.9 cm (14 15/16 x 7 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.); without base: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1980.247
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