LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Painted plaster

Measurements:

26.75 in. (67.94 cm.) (height)

Markings:

Signed I. Konti, dated 1902 and inscribed George F. Comfort

Exhibited:

Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 1. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 408-409, no. 182, illus. George Fisk Comfort (1833-1910) founded The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. He moreover served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University; President of the Southern College of Fine Arts in LaPorte, Texas; and Secretary of the American Philological Society.

Literature:

New York, National Arts Club, Fifth Exhibition of the National Sculpture Society, Dec. 18 - 30, 1903, no. 33

Provenance:

George Fisk Comfort, New York Ralph M. Comfort The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 31.52 (acquired from the above in 1931)