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10 STATUETTE OF NARCISSUS
Plate XVII
H. (exclusive of restoration) 38 m. little finger and upper half of the two remaining
Restored: lower half of nose; right half of upper lip; fingers on right hand; penis, right leg from groin;
lower lip and chin; left eyebrow, eye and upper half left leg from above knee; support; plinth. There is
of cheek; crown of head; patches of back of left an irregular round hole (filled with plaster) -017 m.
shoulder, left elbow, top of right shoulder and on diameter on back of right shoulder,
both sides of right upper arm; thumb, index finger,
A boy, with the weight on the left leg (on side of support), and the right at ease, stands
with arms thrown over his head (right hand clasping left wrist)—a gesture borrowed from
figures of Apollo and Dionysos represented in an attitude of 'divine repose' and likewise
known from the figure in the Louvre (copy of Antonine date), long famous as the 'Genie
du Repos eternel'. R.R.S. I, 151. 7. Replica of a type represented by another but
larger statuette in the Vatican (Gall: Chiaramonti, Amelung, I, p. 756, No. 655, PL 81).
These figures without doubt represent Narcissus, being identical with the two corner
Fig. 5. Sarcophagus with figures of Narcissus (Vatican)
figures of a sarcophagus in the Vatican (Gall: Lapidaria, Amelung, I., p. 288, No. 169),
where Narcissus is shown according to the myth, looking at his reflection in the water,
naively indicated by a mask-like face on the ground (Fig. 5), to which a small Eros draws
his attention. The patches on the shoulders and on the right arm, and the hole in the
right shoulder,, suggest that a small figure of Eros was perched above the boy's shoulders,
urging him to admiration of his own image.
The statuette was probably sepulchral and may have adorned the grave of one who had
died young.
From the Collection of the late Sir Charles Robinson, C.B.
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Plate XVII
H. (exclusive of restoration) 38 m. little finger and upper half of the two remaining
Restored: lower half of nose; right half of upper lip; fingers on right hand; penis, right leg from groin;
lower lip and chin; left eyebrow, eye and upper half left leg from above knee; support; plinth. There is
of cheek; crown of head; patches of back of left an irregular round hole (filled with plaster) -017 m.
shoulder, left elbow, top of right shoulder and on diameter on back of right shoulder,
both sides of right upper arm; thumb, index finger,
A boy, with the weight on the left leg (on side of support), and the right at ease, stands
with arms thrown over his head (right hand clasping left wrist)—a gesture borrowed from
figures of Apollo and Dionysos represented in an attitude of 'divine repose' and likewise
known from the figure in the Louvre (copy of Antonine date), long famous as the 'Genie
du Repos eternel'. R.R.S. I, 151. 7. Replica of a type represented by another but
larger statuette in the Vatican (Gall: Chiaramonti, Amelung, I, p. 756, No. 655, PL 81).
These figures without doubt represent Narcissus, being identical with the two corner
Fig. 5. Sarcophagus with figures of Narcissus (Vatican)
figures of a sarcophagus in the Vatican (Gall: Lapidaria, Amelung, I., p. 288, No. 169),
where Narcissus is shown according to the myth, looking at his reflection in the water,
naively indicated by a mask-like face on the ground (Fig. 5), to which a small Eros draws
his attention. The patches on the shoulders and on the right arm, and the hole in the
right shoulder,, suggest that a small figure of Eros was perched above the boy's shoulders,
urging him to admiration of his own image.
The statuette was probably sepulchral and may have adorned the grave of one who had
died young.
From the Collection of the late Sir Charles Robinson, C.B.
16