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The Small Relic Bearer (Le Petit Porteur de Reliques)
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The Small Relic Bearer
The Small Relic Bearer (Le Petit Porteur de Reliques)
George Minne (Belgian, 1866–1941)
1897
Medium/Technique
Blue limestone
Dimensions
Height x width: 67 × 18.5 cm (26 3/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, and H.E. Bolles Fund
Accession Number2024.2795
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture
Signed
Signed G MINNE on the base (lower right)
ProvenanceDr. Jean Cuvelier (b. 1915 – d. 2012), Wieze, Belgium [see note]; about 2012/2013, sold by the Cuvelier estate to Galerie Pierre Mahaux, Uccle, Belgium; sold by Galerie Mahaux to a private collection, Ghent; 2023, sold from this private collection to Agnews, Brussels; 2024, sold by Agnews to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 18, 2024)
NOTE: This is one of as many as four blue stone sculptures of The Little Relic Bearer by Minne, the early histories of which have not been be definitively traced.
NOTE: This is one of as many as four blue stone sculptures of The Little Relic Bearer by Minne, the early histories of which have not been be definitively traced.