Head of Christ

Unknown

model late 15th century (cast 18th or 19th century) · Copper alloy with a silvered surface; pierced at the top; lead-plugged hole under the INRI-tablet. · Robert Lehman Collection

This plaquette portrays the bust of Christ with a cruciform halo. This late and crude cast is from the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It is a variation of another plaquette in the Lehman Collection: 1975.1.1335.

Artist

Unknown

Date

model late 15th century (cast 18th or 19th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with a silvered surface; pierced at the top; lead-plugged hole under the INRI-tablet.

Culture

Italian, Rome (?)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975