The Christ Child

The figure has been assigned to the Nuremberg foundry of Pankraz Labenwolf (b. 1492; d. 1563) because of its close resemblance to the bronze statuette of a boy surmounting the fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg Town Hall signed by Labenwolf in 1556 The Labenwolf foundry depended for its model on sculptors working in wood. The wooden model for the statuette of the Town Hall fountain survives in the museum of Nuremberg (attributed to the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Peisser, c. 1503-c. 1571), and the Christ Child shows all the signs of having been cast from a similar wooden model.

About the sculpture

Particulars

In the same room · Sculpture, Room 117, Victoria and Albert Museum

On the same theme · Jesus

Yes, receiving visitors

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Panthère de Tunis (Tunisian Panther), 1890

Antinous, late 18th century

Medici Venus, late 18th century

Mercury binding Prometheus, 1700-1715

Hercules and Iole, c. 1691-1700

Archduke Ferdinand Carl of Tirol, ca. 1648

Venus and Cupid, 1640-1650

Orpheus playing to the animals, ca. 1640

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891

The Adoration of the Magi, possibly ca. 1320

Adoration of the Shepherds, shortly after 1450

Madonna and Child, late 1480s

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, 1648

The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1475

The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1612–14

The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1605–10