# Infant Christ

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MENA, Pedro de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Polychromed wood, height 68 cm \(overall\)

## Commentary

This figure, set with glass eyes, with a later silver staff, on a gilt wood base, belongs to a small group of works de Mena carved in Granada during his first years as an independent sculptor. In this period, the influence of artist&#39;s master, Alonso Cano, is still apparent.

## Related artworks

- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r12fb076bc45f08>)
- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r23775c15e659da>)
- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r926721f4cae1e6>)
- [Choir-stalls](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-r79341cd102f142>)
- [Penitent Magdalene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/penitent-magdalene-r15ee43a34e4dbf>)
- [St Francis of Assisi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/st-francis-of-assisi-r564b11506fa44c>)
- [St Peter of Alcántara](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/st-peter-of-alcntara-r4d0d973a32bc45>)
- [The Virgin of Solitude](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/the-virgin-of-solitude-rd541c7da4eadc4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)