On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Statuette of a nude youth,
late 4th century BCE
School of Vulci
Etruscan
Etrusco-Hellenistic Period, ca. 323–100 BCE
y1956-94
Information
Title
Statuette of a nude youth
Dates
late 4th century BCE
Maker
School of Vulci
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
12.1 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm (4 3/4 x 1 5/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Professor Albert Mathias Friend Jr., Class of 1915
Object Number
y1956-94
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Etruria (central Italy)
Culture
Materials
Ex collection Alphonse Kann (Sales catalogue for January 6-8, 1927, no. 100); bought by Professor Albert Mathias Friend Jr. from Joseph Brummer on April 6, 1940.; by bequest to the Museum in 1956
- The Alphonse Kann collection, sold by his order, (New York: American Art Association, 1927)., no. 100
- Francis Follin Jones, "Eight bronze figurines", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 2 (1956): p. 32-38., fig. 1, p. 33 (illus.)
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 16, no. 1 (1957): p. 12-14., p. 14
- Sybille Haynes, "Etruscan bronzes in the British museum: new acquisitions and old possessions", in Suzannah Doeringer, David Gordon Mitten and Arthur Steinberg, eds., Art and technology: a symposium on classical bronzes, (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1970)., p. 187-189
