Harvard Art Museums > 1920.44.133: Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?) 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"Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?) , 1920.44.133,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292178. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1920.44.133 Title Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?) Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 100 BCE-130 CE Period Hellenistic period, Late, to Early Roman Imperial Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292178 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble from Naxos, the Roman Imperial quarries Dimensions 8.9 x 7.62 cm (3 1/2 x 3 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908). Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton Accession Year 1920 Object Number 1920.44.133 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 Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199077 Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?) The ends of the toes are scraped or, as in the case of the big toe, broken away. The break across the beginning of the instep is very irregular. The bottom of the foot was worked and finished but was damaged when the fragment lay bottom up in the soil or on an ancient site. The chubby, childlike nature of the foot suggests identification of the subject. Perhaps this foot was raised, and that is why the underside of what remains appears to have been finished. The date of the carving could be any time from 100 B.C. (before the sack of Delos) to Hadrianic times (around A.D. 130, the period of much of the sculpture from Salamis on Cyprus). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 92, no. 77 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
