Christ at the Column

After a model by Alessandro Algardi Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 550

The silver plaque bears the arms of the Colonna family. In her will of 1659, Anna Colonna Barberini bequeathed to her brother, Cardinal Girolamo Colonna, a silver Christ at the Column. It could have been this one, except that the base was said to be ebony, not marble.

Christ at the Column, After a model by Alessandro Algardi (Italian, Bologna 1598–1654 Rome), Statuette: silver; column: lapis lazuli; base: black marble, silver, Italian, Rome

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Christ at the Column, After a model by Alessandro Algardi (Italian, Bologna 1598–1654 Rome), Statuette: silver; column: lapis lazuli; base: black marble, silver, Italian, Rome
Christ at the Column, After a model by Alessandro Algardi (Italian, Bologna 1598–1654 Rome), Statuette: silver; column: lapis lazuli; base: black marble, silver, Italian, Rome

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