Object details
Accession number
S12w14
Primary Creator
Roman
Full title
Lower Part of a Kneeling Male Figure
Creation Date
about 30 BCE - 15 BCE
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by about 1900.
Dimensions
22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Luna marble
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
East, North, and West Cloister
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)
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