Object details
Object number
S12w14
Creator(s)
Roman
Title
Lower Part of a Kneeling Male Figure
Date
about 30 BCE - 15 BCE
Medium
Luna marble
Dimensions
17.8 x 11.4 x 21.6 cm (7 x 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by about 1900.
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
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 81. (as Graeco-Roman)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 22-23, no. 28.
V. Machaira. Hellenistic Sculpture of Rhodes - Catalogue I (Athens, 2011), p. 113. (as a figure of Atlas; compared to a similar sculpture from Rhodes dated to about 30-15 BCE)
Gallery
East, North, And West Cloister
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