John Barnard

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Artist: John Michael Rysbrack (Flemish, Antwerp 1694–1770 London)
Date: 1744
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 17 × 12 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (43.2 × 30.8 × 23.2 cm)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Sarah and Josephine Lazarus, Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, and Bequests of Mary Clark Thompson and Barbara S. Adler, by exchange, 1976
Accession no.: 1976.330

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

Preliminary Design for Monument to John Gay the Poet
John Michael Rysbrack
c. 1736 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003867
Project for a Statue: Woman Holding Book with Right Hand
John Michael Rysbrack
1700s · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003868
Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
c. 1733 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003876
Design for an Unexecuted Funerary Monument for the First Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
n.d. · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003880

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.