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Monkey Riding a Goat

Pierre Le Gros the Elder French
 Benoît Massou French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

The monkey riding a goat represents Aesop’s fable of "The War between the Birds and the Beasts." Some twenty sculptors worked on the thirty-nine fountains for the Labyrinth between 1672 and 1674. With more than three hundred lead figures, it stood as the largest ensemble of animal sculptures until the work of the nineteenth-century artist Antoine-Louis Barye.

Monkey Riding a Goat, Pierre Le Gros the Elder (French, 1629–1714), Painted lead, French

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