Statue of a wild boar
- Title:
- Statue of a wild boar
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
1st or 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
mid 3rd c. BCE (Hellenistic original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Rome, Italy (discovery site, 16th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Rome, Italy (discovery site, 16th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0293a
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 116
16 sticker
293 - File Name:
- CCC_0293a.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 95 (H) x 151 (W) x 129 (D) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Hellenistic Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Wild boar
Calydonian boar (Greek mythology) - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 107 x 162 (centimeters, height x width)
base:10 x 147 x 70 (centimeters, height x width x diameter) - Description:
- This record represents several fragments from a damaged cast of a marble statue of a wild boar that is housed in Florence at the Uffizi. The original statue may have been an element of a hunt group and was early on associated with Meleager. It was damaged in a fire in the Uffizi in 1762 and was restored soon after. Modern additions include the ears, tip of the snout, hooves, tail, and other small parts. This cast is relatively damaged but has survived in one large piece that includes the head and body of the animal and in several smaller fragments.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 63 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 161-163, no. 13
Guido A. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi. Le sculture, Parte I (Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1958), 78, no. 50
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 129, no. B 214 - Related Work:
- ID nos. 293, 293a, and 292 belong together.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Florence, Uffizi Gallery (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.