SculptureFrench19th century
Why Born Enslaved!
original 1868, cast before 1972
Artists
Jean Baptiste CarpeauxArtist after
Dimensions
61 × 45.7 × 33 cm (24 × 18 × 13 in.)
Provenance
[The Connaught Gallery, London], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, 1972; the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
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