""Putti"" Playing Piggy Back

ca. 1640 (Baroque)

6.6 cm 19.6 cm 6.6 cm

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The chubby little boy with a baby on his back is too strong to be a real toddler. These infants must be putti, the playful, often winged spirits in the shape of little naked babies and children that were popular throughout the baroque age as expressions of the artists' inventi...

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George Robinson Harding, London; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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