Infanta by Carries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020

The Infanta
ca. 1890–94


Object Details

Artist: Jean-Joseph Carriès (French, Lyons 1855–1894 Paris)

Date: ca. 1890–94

Culture: French, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye

Medium: Glazed stoneware

Dimensions: 22 5/8 × 17 5/16 × 18 7/8 in. (57.5 × 44 × 48 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Purchase, Robert L. Isaacson Gift, 1998

Accession Number: 1998.28


Carriès was an experimental sculptor who turned to ceramics, firing his pieces himself, in a range of textures and tones. The subject–a Baroque princess obsessively hugging her doll–pays tribute to Velázquez, while the "accidental" cracks were inspired by Japanese ceramics, another of his passions.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/208881