I’m glad you asked about curator, James David Draper. He’s had such an impressive background as a curator in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department at the Met (one of my favorite areas of the museum!). In relation to the Young Archer statue, he was the first scholar to write about the statue’s whereabouts. It was not attributed to Michelangelo until the 1997—Due to his extensive studies of Michelangelo’s mentor, Bartoldo di Gionvanni, the statue caught Draper’s eye in 1990 as he spotted it (from the sidewalk) displayed in Cultural Services office of the French Embassy. At the time its attribution was unmarked, but Draper saw its value as the work of a late Florentine sculptor. Another expert later attributed it to Michelangelo, initially (and still to some extent) combated by many others’ disagreement, as noted in my article. Aside from countless past exhibitions and his work with other museums, he’s also written and contributed to a wide array of books about subjects such as cameos, Augustin Pajou and European terracotta statues.