Sculpture
Why Born Enslaved!
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- Date
- 1868 (1872)
- Accession number
- 2025.10
- Maker
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux(Opens in new tab) (French, 1827–1875)
- Dimensions
- 23 1/2 × 19 × 12 in. (59.7 × 48.3 × 30.5 cm.)
- Medium
- terracotta
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council, with additional support from the Frances Crandall Dyke Bequest, and the Caillouette Acquisition Endowment for British and Continental Art
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)






