August 1884
51.8 x 24.8 x 24.7 cm (20 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Antonin Proust, purchased from the artist's estate, 1905. Rikoff, France, sold; to Haro, Paris, France [through Galerie Georges Petit, 1907, lot 29]. Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, France, 1907, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1935 [via Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Pentelic marble with modern restorations
2nd century CERomanMarble
2nd century CERomanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekLight gray stone, probably sandstone. From the “Elephant Chapel,” Wangmugong Cave 王母宮石窟, Jingchuan, Gansu province.
4th-6th centuryChineseMarble
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianGray limestone; style of Prasat Andet
7th-8th centuryCambodianTerracotta, traces of paint
3rd century BCEGreekBisque porcelain
18th centuryFrenchLeaded brass
19th-20th centuryItalianOnyx
1st-2nd century CERomanPlaster, toned and painted
19th-20th centuryAmerican