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Source Description
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' inventiveness and wit.Kern specialized in small-scale sculptures produced in a variety of materials, although it is not clear whether he supervised the production of bronze versions of his compositions. These were collected by aristocratic patrons, and, in 1648, Kern was appointed as court sculptor to Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg.
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Document identity
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35447
label
""Putti"" Playing Piggy Back
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object
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Source metadata
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35447
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object
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normalized
title
""Putti"" Playing Piggy Back
description
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' inventiveness and wit.Kern specialized in small-scale sculptures produced in a variety of materials, although it is not clear whether he supervised the production of bronze versions of his compositions. These were collected by aristocratic patrons, and, in 1648, Kern was appointed as court sculptor to Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg.
provenance
George Robinson Harding, London; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1640 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
statuary groups
bronzes
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
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cm
width
19.6
height
6.6
depth
6.6
dimensionsRaw
H: 7 11/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 5/8 in. (19.6 × 6.6 × 6.6 cm)
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med
bronze
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6883
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BAR
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none
Single page context
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1
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photo
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