Further images
The present torso is a Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze originally created by Polykleitos in 430-420 BC. The type is known as the Dresden Boy or Dresden Youth, named after another Roman copy now residing in Dresden, Germany.
Provenance
Armando Pacifici, Il Faunetto, Via Margutta, 90, Rome, Italy; as presumed by his notes on the back of an image from 1972
Private collection, Japan; acquired prior to 1973 likely from the above, thence by descent
On the back of an image of the torso, dated 1972, is a write up by Dr German Hafner (1911-2008), from the University of Mainz, Germany
Exhibitions
'Greek and Etruscan Arts', Tokyo, Japan, 1973Literature
Compare the "Dresden Boy" in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, inventory number Hm 088See another example of the type in Mette Moltesen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Catalogue Imperial Rome II Statues (Copenhagen, 2002), no.53
Publications
German Hafner, ed., Greek and Etruscan Arts, exhibition catalogue (Tokyo, 1973), no.87
Ernst Berger, 'Zum von Plinius (N. H. 34,55) überlieferten 'Nudus talo incessens' des Polyklet', Antike Kunst, Vol.21 (1978), p.55f, note 8
Ernst Berger, ed., Antike Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig, Vol.3 (Mainz, 1990), p.144, Beilage 17C, 3-4; where the footnote to the images states "photographs provided to me by T. Fujita"
