The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Christ Crowned with Thorns

Art Object

Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the intricate furniture designs created by Abraham and David Roentgen. The father-and-son team created innovative designs that were combined with intriguing mechanical devices to revolutionize traditional French and English furniture types.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Christ Crowned with Thorns

Date:: late 17th century
Culture:: probably French
Medium:: Bronze, dark brown patina; ebony, gilt bronze
Dimensions:: H. including pedestal 18 in. (45.7 cm.)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940
Accession Number:: 40.90.2

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

E.F. Bonaventure , New York (until 1936; sale, American Art Association, New York , May 8, 1936, no. 307); [ Piero Tozzi , 1940; sold to MMA ]
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