Turkish Corsair

Description This bronze (along with Walters 54.672) is a small-scale reproduction of one of Pietro Tacca's four figures of Moorish prisoners found on the foot of Baccio Bandinelli's statue of Ferdinand II de'Medici in Livorno, Italy.

Exhibitions

• World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972.

Provenance Giorgio Sangiorgi, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, acquired at no cost [Emile Rey of Seligmann’s, New York as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902