Screaming Child, Stung by a Bee
Also titled Schreeuwend kind, gestoken door een bij
Hendrick de Keyser (I) (Utrecht, 1565–1621)
c. 1615 - c. 1620
- Medium
- boxwood (hardwood)
- Classification
- bust
- Dimensions
- diameter 25.4 cm x thickness 2.7 cm (tondo)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Private gift
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This sculpture probably depicts Cupid, the god of love, who was stung by a bee after stealing some honey. The incident is described in a poem attributed to the Greek poet Theocritus, who lived in the 3rd century BC. The Amsterdam city sculptor Hendrik de Keyser here drew on the poem to portray an extreme facial expression.
