Exhibition Dates: November 3, 2009
Exhibition Location: Vélez Blanco Patio, 1st floor
Press Preview: Monday, November 2, 2009, 10 a.m. – noon
New York, NY – The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475- Rome 1564), in its Vélez Blanco patio beginning November 3, 2009. The fragmentary marble figure of a nude youth, which is missing arms and lower legs, was retained previously in the Fifth Avenue mansion that has housed the Cultural Services office of the French Embassy for decades. The sculpture will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum for ten years as a special loan from the French Republic, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. (more…)
