Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Why Born Enslaved!
modeled 1868, carved 1873
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 58.1 × 40.6 × 31.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-204805
Provenance
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Wrightsman Fellows, and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gifts, 2019
Registry history
- modeled 1868, carved 1873 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — sculpture
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