Object details
Object number
SG8e3
Creator(s)
Roman
Title
Eros Apoxyomenos (Funerary Statue of a Boy)
Date
3rd century
Medium
Marble (with concrete restorations throughout)
Dimensions
86 cm (33 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Installed on the pediment of a fountain (museum nos. SGe3 and SGe4) with two other sculptures (museum nos. SG-8e1 and SG-8e4) at a post-antique date.
Possibly from a home in Zagarolo, near Rome.
The fountain was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner through the art historian and archaeologist Richard Norton (1872-1918) on 28 October 1901.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 16, no. 19. (the boy's head as Graeco-Roman, 3rd century AD)
Gallery
Outside
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