CAST AFTER A MODEL BY VERROCCHIO, 19TH CENTURY

This bronze is a reduction of the famous original by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488), commissioned by the Medici for their villa at Careggi. For a full discussion of its history, see Charles Seymour, Jr., The Sculpture of Verrocchio, London, 1971, pp. 54-57, figs. 46, 47, 49.