Judith, ca. 1470

  • Pollaiuolo, Italian, 1429 - 1498

Bronze with traces of gilding

  • Sculpture without base 17 x 8 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (H x W x D) Including base: 21 1/8 × 8 1/8 × 4 9/16 inches (H x W x D)

Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford

37.147

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Pollaiuolo created in this figure an expressive Image of the beautiful biblical heroine and symbol of the Florentine republic. Working in both Florence and Rome, Pollaiuolo produced paintings, engravings, drawings, embroidery designs, and works in silver and is known especially for his development of the bronze statuette.

Sir William Richard Drake [1817–1890] (Weybridge Surrey, England)

by descent to Mrs. E.K. Hornsby-Drake (London, England)

private collection (Paris, France)

Dr. Frey von Stamore

(Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co.) (New York, New York, USA)

Eleanor Clay Ford [1896–1976] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Pollaiuolo, Judith, ca. 1470, bronze with traces of gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford, 37.147.