Statue (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-29
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8-5029 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Formatore Leopoldo Malpieri, Rome, Lazio
Verbatim coll. place:
Leopoldo Malpieri, Rome
Maker or artist:
Leopoldo Malpieri
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statues
Production date:
5th century BC
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.

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