Running Male Figure

Greek (Artist)

525-510 BCE (Archaic)

solid cast bronze
(Ancient Greece )

The hips and legs of this athletic youth are seen in profile, in a stiffly bent pose that signified running to the Archaic Greeks. His anatomy has been sculpted in detail, though there is an abrupt and awkward transition between the upper and lower body. The figure once served as a handle, perhaps for the lid of a large vessel.

Provenance

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Sambon Sale, Hotel Drouot, 1903, no. 304, pl. 10; Guilhou Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1905, no. 295; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Exhibitions

1979	Aspects of Ancient Greece. Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown.

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Geographies

Italy, Capua (Place of Discovery)

Measurements

H: 3 1/8 x W: 2 5/8 x D: 3/4 in. (8 x 6.7 x 1.9 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1905

Location in Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Greek Art

Accession Number

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54.768

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