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Ephebe Figure
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Ephebe Figure

CultureGreek
Date400 B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (24.13 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-49
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 3-January 5, 1996-1997.

Treasures of Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft, Fralin Museum of Art (formerly Bayly Art Museum), Charlottesville, VA, January 30-March 22, 1998.

Provenance

Charles Haviland (1839-1921), Paris, by 1921;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Collection Ch. Haviland, Objets d’art, Antiques, Égyptiens, Grecs & Romains , Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 11, 1922, lot 66, as Jeune homme à demi nu, assis sur un rocher, by Feuardent Frères, Paris, 1922 [1];

Jerome Stonborough (1873-1938), Vienna, by 1938;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, French & Other Period Furniture…Greek & Roman Statuary…Property of the Estate of the Late Jerome Stonborough , Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 18, 1940, lot 74, as Polychromed Terracotta Statuette of an Athlete, by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N4684, 1940-December 8, 1941 [2];

Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.

NOTES:

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, Object inventory card number N4684. According to a note on the object card, this sculpture was purchased at the Haviland sale for 8100 francs by Feuardent. Feuardent Frères was a Parisian antiquities dealer.

[2] Ibid.

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