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The Drummer Boy

The Drummer Boy, ca. 1750

  • Italian

Silk brocade

  • Overall: 32 1/2 × 22 inches (82.6 × 55.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Albert Kahn

42.7

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Details

(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA)

1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Albert Kahn [1869-1942]

Weibel, A. C. "The Drummer Boy," Bulletin of the DIA 22, no. 2 (November 1942): p. 16; (cover ill.).

Italian, The Drummer Boy, ca. 1750, silk brocade. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Albert Kahn, 42.7.

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