Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian (born and active in Florence), 1435–1488)

probably 19th century

Object PlaceItaly

Medium/TechniqueTerracotta

Dimensions57.2 x 48.3 x 24.1 cm (22 1/2 x 19 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton

Accession number17.1477

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ClassificationsSculpture

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Europe

ProvenanceBy 1887, Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston [see note 1]; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr. and Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] See Wilhelm Bode, Italienische Bildhauer der Renaissance (Berlin, 1887), p. 109.