Description
The seated man raising a vessel to his lips, a masterpiece of Early Greek sculpture, displays the typical Geometric style of modeling figures as simple, linear forms that enclose open space.
Provenance
[Said to be from the Alpheios Valley]; E. Zoupoulakis, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2361]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.