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Figure of a Bishop
Figure of a Bishop

Figure of a Bishop

Master of Mainz
about 1700
Object PlaceMainz, Germany
Medium/TechniqueWood; polychrome wood
Dimensions154.94 x 86.36 cm (61 x 34 in.)
Credit LineGift of the United States Military Academy (West Point)
Accession number49.1786
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1929, Mrs. May Gaston, Boston [see note 1]; about 1929, gift of Mrs. Gaston to the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY; 1949, gift of the U.S. Military Academy to the MFA. (Accession date: December 9, 1949)

Notes:
[1] According to a letter from Colonel Allen L. Keyes, Director of the United States Military Academy Museum (October 31, 1949), the statue was donated by Mrs. Gaston to the Academy collection almost twenty years earlier.