Harvard Art Museums > 1999.231: Statue of a Young Boy Running Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Statue of a Young Boy Running , 1999.231,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/168938. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.231 Title Statue of a Young Boy Running Classification Sculpture Work Type statue, sculpture Date 150-200 CE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/168938 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble Technique Carved Dimensions 63.5 cm h x 36 cm w x 21 cm d (25 in. h x 14 3/16 in. w x 8 1/4 in. d) Provenance Recorded Ownership History King Charles I, London, England, purchase. White Hall Palace, London, England The Earl of Pembroke, Salisbury, England, Collector. Wilton House Lady St. Clair, Colchester, England, Collector. St. Osyth Priory, Colchester, England James Altsdorf, Winnetka, IL, Collector. Dr. Jerome Eisenberg, New York, NY, 1999. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David M. Robinson Fund Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.231 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description "A boy with curly head and sunk pupils hastening forward, the left leg in advance, with the upper part of the body strongly inclined forwards; the right arm raised, the left lowered, both somewhat bent" (From Michaelis 1882, 677, no, 21). Publication History Cary Creed, The marble antiquities, the Right Honble. the Earl of Pembroke's, at Wilton (London, 1731), pl. 55. Charles T. Newton, "Notes on the Sculptures at Wilton House", Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire, George Bell (London, 1849), 248-78, p. 252, no. 21. Frédéric de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne (Paris, 1851), p. 150, no. 2237 A, pl. 878. Adolf Theodor Friedrich Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK, 1882), p. 677, no. 21. Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, Editions Ernst Leroux (Paris, 1908 - 1930), Vol. 1, p. 538. Neville R. Wilkinson, Wilton House Guide: A Handbook for Visitors, Chiswick Press (1908), p. 9, no. 21. A. H. Scott-Elliott and Cornelius C. Vermeule III, "The Statues from Mantua in the Collection of King Charles I", Burlington Magazine (June 1959), Vol. 101, No. 675, 218-27, p. 223, no. 11. Amy Jones, "The Early Restorations of Harvard's Marble Statue of a Young Boy Running" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2002), Unpublished, pp. 1-13 passim John J. Herrmann Jr., "Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Harvard-Vatican Boys", Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gordon Mitten, ed. Amy Brauer, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2010), pp. 34-52 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
