Etruscan Statuette

This statuette ranks among the largest and most beautiful Etruscan bronze sculptures in American collections. A photograph made soon after the statuette was discovered reveals that the figure held a lance in his raised right arm. Thus the sculpture may portray Maris (the Etruscan warrior god) or Hercle (the Greek Heracles) or simply a mortal.

The pose of the figure is based on slightly earlier Greek sculptures.