Doubleen with a Discobolos

Description This doubleen depicts on the front a Discobolos. Moving right, he looks back to the left at the discus in his right hand. His left hand is raised above his wreathed head, and he supports himself on his right foot. His left foot is raised off the round, indicating that the throw is in progress. On the back is a mantled youth standing left. Wreathed, he extends his right hand; the thumb and index and middle fingers are extended, the other two are folded under.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1897 cat. no. 213]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902