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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
His wings are fully spread out. Leda is nude except for
some drapery which falls from her knees to the ground.
She has a taenia, and her hair is tied in a knot at the
back of her head. 4th-3rd cent. B.C. (?).—Purchased of
Col. de Bosset, who obtained it at Argos in 1813.
Marble. Height. 1 foot inches; width, 1 foot 5J inches. Mended,
but not restored. Hughes, Travels in Greece, I., p. 227; Jahn,
Arch. Beitrtigc, pi. 1, p. 6; Arch. Zeit., 1865, p. 49; Ellis,
Town. Gall., EL, p. 112; Overbeck, Kunstmythologie, II., p.
504; Atlas, pi. 8, fig. 22; Bull, dell'Inst., 1880, p. 67 ; Roscher.
Lexikon, II., p. 1930. A very similar but later relief is at
Madrid. Arch. Zeit., 1865, pi. 198 ; Baumeister, Denhmaeler,
II., p. 813. For representations of Leda, see Jahn, Overbeck
and Roscher, 11. cc.
(Plate XXVI.) Circular disk with reliefs representing
the destruction of the children of Niobe by Apollo and
Artemis. The figures are irregularly disposed in four
tiers, on a rocky background. In the top tier are
(1) Artemis standing to the left, in short chiton and
himation and boots, drawing her bow, which with her
left arm is now lost; (2) Apollo kneeling to the right-
nude except for a himation, and also drawing his bow,
which is now lost, together with his head, right arm, and
left knee.
In the second tier are the following figures:—(3) Nude
youth standing, supporting with his right arm the
kneeling draped figure of a girl, and holding out his
mantle with his left arm as if for shelter from the arrows.
The heads of both figures are wanting. (4) Wounded
youth recumbent, leaning on his right hand, and drawing
an arrow from his breast with the left hand. The head
and both arms are wanting. (5) Slain 2siobid lying on
the rocks, with his legs higher than his head. Both arms
are wanting. (6) Youth kneeling on rocky ground, with
both arms raised and the body twisted as if wounded in
the back. It is probable, from the replica mentioned
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
His wings are fully spread out. Leda is nude except for
some drapery which falls from her knees to the ground.
She has a taenia, and her hair is tied in a knot at the
back of her head. 4th-3rd cent. B.C. (?).—Purchased of
Col. de Bosset, who obtained it at Argos in 1813.
Marble. Height. 1 foot inches; width, 1 foot 5J inches. Mended,
but not restored. Hughes, Travels in Greece, I., p. 227; Jahn,
Arch. Beitrtigc, pi. 1, p. 6; Arch. Zeit., 1865, p. 49; Ellis,
Town. Gall., EL, p. 112; Overbeck, Kunstmythologie, II., p.
504; Atlas, pi. 8, fig. 22; Bull, dell'Inst., 1880, p. 67 ; Roscher.
Lexikon, II., p. 1930. A very similar but later relief is at
Madrid. Arch. Zeit., 1865, pi. 198 ; Baumeister, Denhmaeler,
II., p. 813. For representations of Leda, see Jahn, Overbeck
and Roscher, 11. cc.
(Plate XXVI.) Circular disk with reliefs representing
the destruction of the children of Niobe by Apollo and
Artemis. The figures are irregularly disposed in four
tiers, on a rocky background. In the top tier are
(1) Artemis standing to the left, in short chiton and
himation and boots, drawing her bow, which with her
left arm is now lost; (2) Apollo kneeling to the right-
nude except for a himation, and also drawing his bow,
which is now lost, together with his head, right arm, and
left knee.
In the second tier are the following figures:—(3) Nude
youth standing, supporting with his right arm the
kneeling draped figure of a girl, and holding out his
mantle with his left arm as if for shelter from the arrows.
The heads of both figures are wanting. (4) Wounded
youth recumbent, leaning on his right hand, and drawing
an arrow from his breast with the left hand. The head
and both arms are wanting. (5) Slain 2siobid lying on
the rocks, with his legs higher than his head. Both arms
are wanting. (6) Youth kneeling on rocky ground, with
both arms raised and the body twisted as if wounded in
the back. It is probable, from the replica mentioned