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Statue of a Boy leaning on a Pillar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Eugénie Strong
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This statue, which was in the possession of Dr. Philip Nelson of Liverpool, has recently become the property of the Bavarian ‘Verein der Kunstfreunde’ who allow the charming work to be exhibited on loan in the Munich Glyptothek.

That the original, of which this statue is a copy, was famous and popular in antiquity is amply proved by the large number of extant replicas. The present example brings up to twenty the number of authenticated replicas given in the English edition of Furtwängler's ‘Masterpieces’ (p. 272, note 4) and the list could doubtless easily be increased if the eleven replicas in Rome (Matz-Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Röm, vol. i. pp. 275–278) and the thirtyseven replicas enumerated by M. Salomon Reinach in his Répertoire de la Statuaire (Index, s.v. ‘Narcissus’) could be thoroughly examined and sifted. This is a task which I had proposed to myself in view of this paper, but which I have as yet been unable to carry out.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 26 , November 1906 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1906

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References

1 See a note on p. 296 of the Burlington Magazine for January 1906.

2 Until I have examined more replicas, I do not feel competent on Dr. Amelung's theory of two versions of the ‘Narcissus,’ the one more Polykleitan, the other more Attic in character.

3 The melancholy of the expression has been more than once compared with that of the ‘Wounded Amazon’ of Polykleitos. But if the two works are considered side by side, a deeper and more individual emotion will be felt to pervade the ‘Narcissus’ than the ‘Amazon.’