This work, from his youth, is unique in its material essence. Portrait of a Child is one of the very rare examples of an original terracotta sculpture from Medardo Rosso's studio that has survived to this day. The modeling that retains the rapidity of plaster, the skillful nonchalance of a form achieved almost with brushstrokes of overlapping material, the diagonal placement of the head and the collar that protrudes from the base with the same approach as the Birichino, the suspension of the volume on the base itself, and finally a pathos that already preludes the Jewish Child are multiple and consistent confirmations of the authenticity of this unpublished terracotta. Paola Mola
P. Mola, F. Vitucci, Medardo Rosso. Catalogo ragionato della scultura, Skira, Milano, 2009, III, 22, p. 358.
