Rider

Description

Once mounted with pins upon his horse (now lost), this statuette depicts a young man participating in an equestrian race. The rider’s distinctive equipment is still barely visible: his right hand clutches the base of a goad to urge on his horse, and the first pleat of a cloak, the youth’s only covering, lays over his left shoulder.

Provenance

Christoph F. Leon, Basel, Switzerland

Rider

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c. 400–375 BCE

Accession Number

1977.41

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

Overall: 13.3 x 7.6 cm (5 1/4 x 3 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund