AT-00016882
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Why Born Enslaved!
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie)
- Date
- modeled 1868, carved 1873
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 22 7/8 × 16 × 12 1/2 in., 132.7 lb. (58.1 × 40.6 × 31.8 cm, 60.2 kg) Pedestal: 22 × 18 in., 1298 lb. (55.9 × 45.7 cm, 588.8 kg)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Wrightsman Fellows, and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gifts, 2019
- Accession no.
- 2019.220
Provenance
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.
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