Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Young Negress with a Boy and a Dog

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Young Negress with a Boy and a Dog
Alternate Title: 
Giovane Mora con Fanciullo e un Cane
Image View: 
Detail, dog with dark inset eyes and arms, hands and little boy in black marble (nero antico)
Creator: 
workshop of Giovanni Battista della Porta (Italian sculptor, ca.1542-1597)
Location: 
repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. LVII
Location Note: 
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
GPS: 
+41.914+12.492
Date: 
before 1607 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Baroque
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
white and black marble
Technique: 
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
animal; human figure; pietra dura; inlay; mother and child; dog
Description: 
This group has also been attributed to Nicholas Cordier. The Borghese Gallery has it attributed to workshop of Della Porta. (Information from museum label).
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-GBDELLAP-YMC-A04
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.