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Youth leaning on a column

Greek
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra

Medium/Technique Terracotta
Dimensions 26.2 cm (10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7813
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionYouth leaning on a column, wearing a himation and heavy round wreath. Red-brown on hair, pinkish flesh-color on flesh, trace of pink on himation, white slip well preserved. Much broken and repaired. Missing: fingers and thumb of right hand, and many small pieces.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris: said from Tanagra.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901