id: 152256 accession number: 1985.137 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.137 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:25.483000 Boxer, 100–30 BC. Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze. solid cast, with copper inlays; overall: 21 x 11 cm (8 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.137 title: Boxer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100–30 BC creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: -30 current location: 102C Greek creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty technique: bronze. solid cast, with copper inlays department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21 x 11 cm (8 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete opening date: 2004-07-20T00:00:00 Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (July 20-November 28, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA/Los Angeles/Boston 1988-89, pp. 147-50, no. 24 (entry by Marion True)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (7/20/2004 - 11/28/2004): "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete" --- PROVENANCE Giovanni Dattari date: footnotes: citations: Arthur Sambon date: footnotes: citations: M. Heugel date: footnotes: citations: Probably Alexandria. Formerly in the collections of Giovanni Dattari and Arthur Sambon; Dattari Sale, p. 50, no. 433, pls. LII-LIII; sale: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 25-28 May 1914, Collection Arthur Sambon, p. 19, no. 61, illus. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The long topknot (cirrus) identifies this athlete as a hand-to-hand fighter, most likely a boxer. digital description: This boxer raises his arms to pull tight the thongs (now lost) that Greek and Roman boxers wound around their hands for protection. The sinuous body curve and long proportions are characteristic of the late Hellenistic period, when artists created more elongated versions of athletes and other classical figures. wall description: This figure's pigtail identifies him as a boxer or wrestler. He seems to be raising his arms to pull tight the thongs that Greek and Roman boxers wound around their hands for protection. This athlete has the nobility of a Classical fifth-century BC (Age of the Parthenon) statuette. His long proportions, however, are those of the late Hellenistic period when artists copied Classical figures but made them more elongated. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hôtel Drouot. Antiquités Égyptiennes Grecques et Romaines Vente à Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Salles Nos 9 et 10 le Lundi 17, Mardi 18 et Mercredi 19 Juin 1912 à Deux Heures Precises. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1912. page number: Mentioned: p. 50, no 433; Reproduced: plates 52-3 url: https://ia802601.us.archive.org/0/items/collectionsdefeu00htel/collectionsdefeu00htel.pdf Galerie Georges Petit, F. Lair-Dubreuil, Jacob Hirsch, Meyer-Riefstahl, and Jules Féral. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité, de l'antiquité, du moyen âge, de la renaissance, et autres, faïences italiennes, terres émaillées des Robbia, porcelaines de Saxe, ivoires, objets variés, bijoux, bois sculptés, marbres, pierres, terres cuites, bronzes italiens, sculptures égyptiennes et grecques en marbre, terres cuites et bronzes grecs et romains, faïences orientales, importante série de Rhagès, manuscrits persans, sculptures et peintures chinoises, bronze de Mossoul, tableaux anciens des écoles primitives, de la renaissance et du XVIIIe siècle, œuvres de H. Met de Bles, Pater, etc., pastels par J.B. Liotard: formant la collection de M. Arthur Sambon. 1914. page number: Mentioned: p. 21 no. 61; Reproduced: p. 19-20 url: https://archive.org/details/objetsdartetdeha00unse/page/n43/mode/2up Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930. page number: Mentioned: p. 62; Reproduced: p. 38 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 147-50; Reproduced: p. 148-9 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1989. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15 fig. 29 url: 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 and Mentioned: p. 476-7 url: Herrmann, John J., and Christine Kondoleon. Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit. Boston, Mass: MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. 178; Reproduced: p. 102, no. 67 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.137/1985.137_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.137/1985.137_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.137/1985.137_full.tif