id: 139734 accession number: 1963.507 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.507 updated: 2022-04-21 09:00:25.525000 Statuette of a Beggar, 100-50 BC. Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze, solid cast, with silver and copper inlays; overall: 18.4 x 5.3 x 7.2 cm (7 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 2 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.507 title: Statuette of a Beggar title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100-50 BC creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: -50 current location: 102C Greek creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty technique: bronze, solid cast, with silver and copper inlays department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 18.4 x 5.3 x 7.2 cm (7 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 2 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-26T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 26, 1963-January 5, 1964). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 25 November 1963-5 January 1964, Year in Review for 1963, cat.: CMA Bulletin 50, no. 10 (December 1963), no. 82, illus. p. 265; CMA/Los Angeles/Boston 1988-89, no. 20 (entry by Marion True) --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This bronze reflects an exotic, urban setting, such as Alexandria, one of the most cosmopolitan of all classical cities and rich in cultural. It was the home of a great library and famous philosophers. Greeks, Jews, Egyptians, Africans, and Romans lived, studied, and traded there. The little goatee and curly sideburns mark this figure as a mature man rather than the child he at first seems to be. The black patina was purposely induced in antiquity by exposing the bronze to sulphide fumes. The color of the patina was heightened by inlays in contrasting silver and copper for the eyes and lips. Deformities—in this case, scoliosis of the spine—fascinated some Greek artists. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n48 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. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n46 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. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n48 Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988.
Published as: Black Banausos page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 128-131, cat. no. 20 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27 Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced: p. 475; Mentioned: p. 475-6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.507/1963.507_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.507/1963.507_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.507/1963.507_full.tif