Boy with thorn
Unknown artist 19th/20th Century. After Antique. Bronze green patina. Height 50.5 cm (including stone base 53.5 cm). Length 38 cm.
Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from his foot, now placed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. There is also a later Roman marble version of this subject in the Medici collections in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.