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Edmé Bouchardon
Child Riding a Dolphin1738

Not on view
Gilded sculpture of a nude child astride a large open-mouthed fish with a coiled, spout-like tail, mounted on a polished wood plinth
Artist or Maker
Edmé Bouchardon
France, Chaumont en Bassigny, 1698-1762
Title
Child Riding a Dolphin
Place Made
France
Date Made
1738
Medium
Tinted plaster with fitted modern wood base
Dimensions
8 × 16 × 10 in. (20.32 × 40.64 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.86.322.2
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Desmas, Anne-Lise, Édouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, and Juliette Trey. Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016.