Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Object type: Bust
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Culture: Italian, Florence
Artist: Pietro Tacca|Giambologna
Artist bio: Italian, Carrara 1577–1640 Florence|Netherlandish, Douai 1529–1608 Florence
Artist role: Founder|Artist
Artist nationality: Italian|Netherlandish
Date: modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: confirmed: 30 3/8 × 24 1/2 × 13 11/16 in., 113.8 lb. (77.2 × 62.2 × 34.7 cm, 51.6 kg)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, by exchange; Edith Perry Chapman Bequest; Robert Lehman Foundation Inc. Gift; Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, in memory of his father, Edward Joseph Gallagher, his mother, Ann Hay Gallagher, and his son, Edward Joseph Gallagher III; and Harris Brisbane Dick, Rogers, Pfeiffer, Louis V. Bell and Dodge Funds, 1983
Accession year: 1983
Tags: Men|Portraits