Lot 135
135
A ROMAN MARBLE MALE TORSO
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A ROMAN MARBLE MALE TORSO

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A ROMAN MARBLE MALE TORSO
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

The slender youthful figure originally standing with his weight on his right leg, his left leg relaxed, his right arm pulled back with the hand originally resting on the back of his hips, the left lowered along his side
21 in. (53.34 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A nearly identical torso with re-attached original head is in Harvard University's Sackler Museum. The type exists in several Roman copies, all thought to be based on a funerary monument in the tradition of Polykleitos of circa 430 B.C. The type has also been traditionaly identified as Narcissus while others suggest the figure comes from a group repressenting the hunter Adonis. For the Harvard torso see no. 19 in Vermuele and Bauer,Stone Sculptures.