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Youth (Herakles?) leaning on a staff
Etruscan
Classical Period
about 460 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height: 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number96.709
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 050; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 119 (additional published references).
DescriptionThe youth is standing on a small semicircular plinth, leaning cross-legged on a thin club, and wearing a chlamys. His right hand held something, perhaps a phiale. There is a fillet in the hair, and the locks falling over the forehead recall the Blond Boy from the Acropolis. A certain linear quality in the arrangement of the folds of the drapery also suggests the late Archaic to early Transitional periods (about 480 B.C.), but treatment of the muscles seems advanced by at least a generation. So does the line of the profile, seen in side view. The statuette possibly comes from the top of a candelaber. Brown patina with greenish corrosion.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, October 1896