Roman. Torso of a Boy, ca. 100 C.E. Marble, 18 11/16 × 11 1/2 × 5 in. (47.5 × 29.2 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.618. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 36.618.jpg)
Roman. Torso of a Boy, ca. 100 C.E. Marble, 18 11/16 × 11 1/2 × 5 in. (47.5 × 29.2 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.618. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 36.618_rear.jpg)
Torso of a Boy
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
CULTURE
Roman
MEDIUM
Marble
DATES
ca. 100 C.E.
PERIOD
Roman Period
DIMENSIONS
18 11/16 × 11 1/2 × 5 in. (47.5 × 29.2 × 12.7 cm)
52 lb. (23.59kg)
mount: 23 × 14 × 12 in. (58.4 × 35.6 × 30.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
36.618
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
PROVENANCE
Archaeological provenance not yet documented, possibly from Alexandria, Egypt; by 1936, acquried by Louis Herse of Alexandria; October 26, 1936, purchased from Louis Herse by the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
White marble torso of a youth, chlamys over left shoulder, nude. Roman copy (ca. 100 AD) of a Greek original (ca. 475 B.C.). Resembles Meleager. The boy wears a cloak thrown over his left shoulder; the body is otherwise nude. His weight is thrown on his left foot in the “Praxitilean pose” . The modeling is good and the piece is obviously a late copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fifth century.
Condition: the head, feet and left arm and left thigh are missing. The surface is scarred and pitted.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Roman. Torso of a Boy, ca. 100 C.E. Marble, 18 11/16 × 11 1/2 × 5 in. (47.5 × 29.2 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.618. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 36.618.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 36.618.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
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