Statuette (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-214
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1854 (original number), 8-5214 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 944 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statuettes (free-standing sculpture)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-214, described as Cast of recumbent youth. From a mildly archaic Greek bronze statuette discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. The pose and the type recall the very common ones of Greek, Etruscan and Roman sepulchral statues and statuettes of stone and clay, in which the dead person appears comfortably extended on a couch, and with a wine cup in his hand, like one who has entered into the joy of Elysian life. Friederichs-Wolters 378. Olympia IV Plate 7.

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