HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE MACEDONIAN CAVALRYMAN
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Depicted charging forward to spear his foe, wearing high boots, a short tunic below a corselet, a chlamys pinned by a circular brooch at his right shoulder, and a short-crested Attic helmet, his corselet tied by a wide sash in a Herakles knot at the front, with two layers of pteryges and wide shoulder straps, riding with his left leg lowered, the right bent acutely at the knee and pulled back, his torso twisting dramatically with the right shoulder back, the arm upraised, a spear (sarissa) once held in his now-missing hand, the right lowered to his thigh, the hand once holding the reins, his short wavy hair emerging from below the rim of his helmet, his face with a ridged brow, articulated eyes, a straight nose and a small mouth; three perforations along the edges for attachment to the horse
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high

来源

Swiss Art Market, 1995.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 June 2002, lot 99.
with Ward & Co., New York, 2006.

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According to Pliny (Natural History, 34.61.65) Alexander the Great commissioned his court sculptor Lysippos to create a monument honoring the members of the Macedonian cavalry who fell at the battle of Granicus. Although the group does not survive, the bronze depicting Alexander on horseback is recognized in several copies, including the bronze from Herculaneum, no. 4 in Pandermalis, Alexander the Great, Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism. The present bronze likely depicts one of his generals. For the pose and armor, compare the figure on the far right of the battle frieze of the Alexander Sarcophagus, who served as the counterpoint of the figure of Alexander at the far left (see fig. 26 in Markle, "Macedonian Arms and Tactics under Alexander the Great" in Barr-Sharrar and Borza, eds., Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times).