A Youth at a Stream

John Henry Foley

1844 · Lead with golden brown lacquer patination · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Reduction of a model exhibited at Westminster Hall, London, in 1844. A bronze sculpture of this subject was for sale in 1846; another statue of this subject was made for the Royal Horticultural Society in 1864. Has been linked to the lines [source not given]: "Playful and wanton to the stream he trips,/And dips his foot."

Artist

John Henry Foley

Date

1844

Medium

Lead with golden brown lacquer patination

Culture

British

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Fanny Shapiro Bequest and Rogers Fund, 1974