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Rider
c. 400–375 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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Details
- Title: Rider
- Date Created: c. 400–375 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 13.3 x 7.6 cm (5 1/4 x 3 in.)
- Provenance: Christoph F. Leon, Basel, Switzerland
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.41
- Medium: bronze
- Fun Fact: Without stirrups, this rider’s heels turn inward to control his mount by pressing its flanks.
- Department: Greek and Roman Art
- Culture: Greece, perhaps from workshop of Tarentum, early 4th Century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: GR - Greek
- Accession Number: 1977.41
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