Figural study of a man kneeling
Jacques-Edmé Dumont was a highly accomplished Neoclassical miniaturist. His family, a dynasty of sculptors, preserved a great many of these captivating little terracottas (see 2015.378–.382a, b). This figural study shows how Dumont expertly wielded a flat-sided stick to carve the clay along rectangular planes.
Credit: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2015
Late 18th-early 19th century
Terracotta
3.0 cm
2015.379
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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