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Left Arm
(Ancient Greece )
Arm from a small statue, probably of a boy. The arm was raised nearly to shoulder level while the hand held something about which the fingers curled lightly, perhaps the rein of a chariot. The modeling is very fine.
Just below the shoulder, near the broken edge, there is a solid cross section of bronze. Either a core is concealed or the arm is solid; the great weight proves that it is not hollow cast and empty.
Provenance
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Canessa Collection (said to be found in Greece), [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Measurements
L: 16 7/16 in. (41.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1906
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.820