Head of a Youth
Unknown Artist
This clean face does not appear to have been part of a full head but rather was incorporated, masklike, into a corbel. The tonsured hair would be appropriate for a monastic context. The face is strikingly similar to those on a corbel near the chapter house at the royal abbey of Saint-Denis. Other damaged corbels in the vicinity may be the source of this face.
Credit: The Cloisters Collection, 2002
c. 1230-50
Limestone
17.5 x 17.3 x 12.5 cm
2002.211
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023
Where you'll find this
The Met Cloisters
Permanent collection