Hellenistic original. The movement of the body and its composition in an inverted “S” shape recall the statues of Praxiteles. Nevertheless, the proportions are thinner and the treatment of the flesh is more delicate. The forms and details of the body are very soft which is a feature of late Hellenistic sculpture from Ionia. The two holes in the shoulders are possibly the remains of some embedded bronze wings, an attribute of the god Eros.
La donación de Claudio Bravo: veinte esculturas grecorromanas, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2000, pp. 36.
Azcue Brea, Leticia, El origen de las colecciones de escultura del Museo del Prado. El Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura, El taller europeo. Intercambios, influjos y préstamos en escultura moderna europea. I Encuentro europeo de museos con colecciones de escultura, Valladolid, 2012, pp. 73-108.
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2603.
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