BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF APOLLO KITHAROIDOS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF APOLLO KITHAROIDOS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
standing on a rectangular base with the weight on his right leg and formerly holding the kithara in his left arm and the plektron in his right hand, and wearing sandals, long chiton with broad belt, and mantle pinned on the shoulders and falling over the back in deep chevron-shaped folds; the missing right arm carved separately, the neck hollowed out for insertion of the head, a rectangular dowel hole on the upper left thigh; no restorations.
Height 70.5 cm.
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Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), 7, Square de Messine, Paris, by 1928
Tajan, Paris, December 3rd, 2019, no. 180, illus. (”Art romain, ou postérieur”)
Arthur Sambon, Exposition de sculpture. Sculpture comparée de l’Antiquité, du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, exh. cat., March 16th-April 16th, 1928, no. 39, pl. 17 (“Une Muse. Statuette en marbre de Paros. Probablement réplique de la Muse par Praxias, [Ve siècle av. J.-C.] Collection Sambon.”)
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. 6, Paris, 1930, p. 73, no. 5
The costume is characteristic of representations of Apollo as Kitharoidos, singing and playing the kithara. Related figures are in Santorin (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/31057), and in Wörlitz (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/32007). Such figures were often accompanied by representations of the Muses.