Cleveland Museum of Art
The Jewish Boy
Medardo Rosso
- Date
- c. 1892
- Medium
- wax on plaster
- Culture
- Italy, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Medardo Rosso was a highly experimental sculptor who deliberately cultivated coarse, unrefined surfaces in his work. In this head of a boy—which the artist considered one of his most successful works—he effectively utilized the fluid properties of wax to suggest the fleeting movement of a child’s expression as well as the ephemeral nature of childhood. Like the Impressionist painters of his time, Rosso sought to capture the fleeting and ephemeral qualities of light. However, he did not work directly from nature. His images were created from memory and emotion.
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