Figure of a Youth
CultureGreek
Dateca. 500-490 B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta with traces of paint
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (23.5 × 16.51 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-54
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 103
Collections
Gallery LabelThis now-fragmentary sculpture may have portrayed a reclining banqueter such as the figure below it. The extraordinary modeling of the body reveals rather realistic abdominals but also a superb, geometrically designed arch marking the edge of the ribcage.
With Ettore Sestieri, Naples, by 1948;
Purchased from Sestieri, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 33.
Robert Cohon with Karin Jones, “Ancient Greek Ceramics,” in Ceramics: Highlights from the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 57, (repro.).
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