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Youth

CultureRoman
Dateca. 450 B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 inches (15.88 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number56-79
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
Exhibition History

Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 47.

 

Master Bronzes from the Classical World, The Fogg Art Museum, December 4, 1967-January 23, 1968; City Art Museum of Saint Louis, March 1-April 13, 1968; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 8-June 30, 1968, no. 96.
Provenance

Possibly found at Cumae, Italy [1];

 

With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1955;

 

Purchased from the Estate of Jacob Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] According to the estate of Jacob Hirsch, NAMA curatorial files.
Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 25.

 

“Anatomy and Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 3, no. 1, exh. cat.  (Summer 1960): 17, no. 47.

 

David Mitten and Suzanne Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, exh. cat. (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1967), 99, no. 96.

 

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), 35.

 

Walter Trillmich, “Ein Kopffragment aus Verdolay bei Murcia. Zur Problematik der Datierung iberischer Grossplastik aufgrund griechischer Vorbilder,” Madrider Mitteilungen 16 (1975): 229-230n79.

 

Peter Kranz, “Ein Zeugnis lokrischer Toreutik,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 85, pt. 2 (1978): 237, plate 105.3.

 

Maria Antonietta Tomei, “Statue di Terracotta dal Palantino,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 99 (1992): 36. 

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