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From 9/20 through 9/23, visitors may only enter through the John R entrance. All other entrances, plus the museum grounds, Kirby St and Farnsworth St will be closed during this time for Concours d'Elegance.

Male Equestrian Figure, between 1875 and 1910

  • Voania, African, 1875 - 1928

Terracotta

  • Overall: 17 × 10 1/4 × 7 5/16 inches (43.2 × 26 × 18.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the Arthur D. Coar Endowment Fund, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, and the Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund

1994.47

On View

  • African N1BB

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Professor Robert Farris Thompson. (Alan Brandt, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Voania, Male Equestrian Figure, between 1875 and 1910, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the Arthur D. Coar Endowment Fund, et al., 1994.47.