A LETTER ON BOY PROSTITUTION IN PARIS, 1846
Anonymous 86, 9 February 2022
Can anyone tell me anything about the last statue depicted in the article?
Editor, 13 February 2022
Following your query, it has been suggested to me by a good authority that this statue is probably by Dutch sculptor Wim van der Kant, but it can't yet be confirmed. It certainly looks to me very much in his style.
17 February 2022
An expert has now been consulted and has corrected the suggested attribution. The statue is known as "boy with a belt", and "is the work, considered to be the most important, of the Norwegian sculptor Lars Utne (1862-1922)." In case you are interested, the first statue of the boy with the butterfly was titled "Joyance" and "it was the work of the Welsh sculptor William Goscombe John, a follower of New Sculpture."
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