Bust of a boy

En face, head slightly moved forward. Slightly curled hair with forelock, smiling lips, looks down. Gesson, tinted and darkened. On pedastal of marble. (Was maybe later worked as a bust. Repaired at neck) H. without pedestal 22 cm, H. with pedastal 31 cm. See the infant Jesus at the tabernacle of Desiderio da Settignano in San Lorenzo, Florenz. See similar figures at the Louvre, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, previously collection Kauffmann, Berlin etc. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49.