Man Throwing a Stone

Description This finely carved figure of a man is dressed, except for his fanciful hat, as a mercenary soldier. He is depicted throwing stones (or possibly clods of earth or pieces of gnarled wood) and is likely from a group representing the Stoning of Saint Stephen.

Provenance Delannoy; Sale, Arnold Seligmann and Rey, New York, January 12, 1922; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922