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Artist: Unknown
Torso of a Youth, possibly Apollo or Hercules
ca. 1530
White marble and specs of mica
115.6 × 55.5 × 39 cm (45 1/2 × 21 7/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Gift of Art Gallery Associates
1961.26
Status:
On view
Culture:
Italian, Florence(?)
Period:
16th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Alfred Westerholtz; sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, February 26–27, 1918, lot 54 (as “Male torso”); sold to Professor Otto A. Böhler, Hamburg; consigned to Julius Böhler (Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, dealer), Munich, April 28, 1949 (as Roman, Marble torso, 1st century A.D.) (stock no. 4049), and sold to The Arcade Gallery, Ltd., London, November 11, 1961 (as Torso of a Youth, Asia Minor, perhaps Pergamon, 1st Century A.D.); sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1961
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
