id: 130360 accession number: 1953.125 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.125 updated: 2025-02-14 13:29:48.812000 Torso of a Kouros, c. 550 BCE. Greece, Archaic period. Marble; overall: 62.5 cm (24 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.125 title: Torso of a Kouros title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 550 BCE creation date earliest: -555 creation date latest: -545 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Archaic period technique: marble department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 62.5 cm (24 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Das Meschenbuild in der europäischen Kunst (Images of Man in Western Art) opening date: 1980-07-05T04:00:00 Das Meschenbuild in der europäischen Kunst (Images of Man in Western Art). Antikenmuseum, Charlottenburg, Germany (July 5-September 28, 1980). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Archaeology. “Archaeological News.” Archaeology, Vol. 7, No. 4 (December 1954): 252. page number: Reproduced and mentioned p. 252 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663252 Lee, Sherman E. “The Cleveland Kouros.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 3 (1954): 43–51. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141946 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n18 Cahn, H.A. "Der kuros von Cleveland." Antike Kunst, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1958): 75-76. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 75-76, pl. 32-33. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41318490 Richter, Gisela M. A. Kouroi, Archaic Greek Youths; A Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture. London: Phaidon Press, 1960. page number: Mentioned, p. 112 (Melos Group). url: Schefold, Karl. Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst. Basel. Kunsthalle. Catalogues. 1960-1961. Basel: B. Schwabe, 1960. page number: Pp. 170, 173, cat. VIII 163 url: Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 2; Plate 2 url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n5 Hoffmann, H. (1961). [Review of Kouroi. Archaic Greek Youths, a Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture, by Gisela M. A. Richter]. American Journal of Archaeology, 65(3), 319–321 (Cleveland kouros mentioned). page number: url: https://doi.org/10.2307/501702 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42 Kenfield, John F. "The Question of the Cleveland Kouros." American Journal of Archaeology 78, no. 1 (1974): 70-71. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 70-71, pl. 21. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/503762 Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. page number: pp. 36, 81; pl. 3-4. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n42 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 May, Sally Ruth. Knockouts: a pocket guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 9, p. 14 - 15 url: Spivey, Nigel. Greek Sculpture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Fig. 5.7, p. 134. page number: Ill. p. 134, Fig. 5.7. url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 79 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_full.tif