The Dead Bird

18th century H: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm) Citation Source image

This sentimental piece, formerly attributed to Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791), depicts the nude figure of a young girl seated with a dead bird on her right knee and her hands clasped to the left in a gesture of sorrow. This subject in art is associated with lost innocenc...

Sculpture

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25093
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sculpture
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normalized
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Octave Homberg, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Octave Homberg Sale, Paris, May 16, 1906, no. 724; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase [through Jacques Seligmann]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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