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Etruscan statuette of a young man
Italo-Etruscan
Bronze, cast solid
Height: 9.5cm
Museum number: A25
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 423
On display: Lobby to the Breakfast Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
A nude young man standing with his legs close together and his left arm against his side. He wears a conventionalised Etruscan version of the Archaic hairdo - conical with the hair cut evenly around the brow and down behind over the shoulders. The right arm (here missing) was probably stretched forward with the palm down.
The scholar Bieber terms these youths, "Archaic Etruscan from an Ionian original of the beginning of the fifth century BC."1. A similar (or perhaps the identical?) bronze is drawn in one of the dal Pozzo drawings in the Royal Collection at Windsor2. Other drawings in the same volume3 show that Etruscan statuettes of the type seen here were among the first minor bronze antiquities known to the later Renaissance scholars in the Rome area.
1 Cassel, p. 53, no. 121, pl. XXXIX which is "the same type as the previous".
2 Vol. VI (A. 45), no. 8613b.
3 Vol. VI (A. 45), no. 8612ff.
The scholar Bieber terms these youths, "Archaic Etruscan from an Ionian original of the beginning of the fifth century BC."1. A similar (or perhaps the identical?) bronze is drawn in one of the dal Pozzo drawings in the Royal Collection at Windsor2. Other drawings in the same volume3 show that Etruscan statuettes of the type seen here were among the first minor bronze antiquities known to the later Renaissance scholars in the Rome area.
1 Cassel, p. 53, no. 121, pl. XXXIX which is "the same type as the previous".
2 Vol. VI (A. 45), no. 8613b.
3 Vol. VI (A. 45), no. 8612ff.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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