Child and Goose

Sculpture

Museum of Antiquities - University of Saskatchewan

Catalogue Image

2014-00-00

Name/Title

Child and Goose

Entry/Object ID

79H0223

Description

Figure of a small chubby boy grasping a large goose around the neck. Penis is missing from the statue.

Type of Sculpture

Statue

Artwork Details

Medium

Plaster

Context

Roman copy of a prototype in bronze attributed to Boethus of Chalcedon. It is suspected that these statues held some form of religious significance. Otherwise, the play on a chubby child and a downy goose evokes amusement rather than sympathy.

Made/Created

Date made

175 BCE - 125 BCE

Time Period

Hellenistic

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Greek - Hellenistic

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

93 cm

Width

41 cm

Depth

72 cm

Research Notes

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Plinius Secundus, C. Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art. Chicago: Argonaut, 1968. Page 70-71. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Bieber, M. Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age. NY: Columbia University Press, 1955. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Brilliant, Richard. Arts of the Ancient Greeks. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Page 343. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Bicher, Margaret. The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age. NY: Columbia University Press, 1955. Figure 285, pages 81-82. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Richter, Gisela M.F. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Page 235. Public: No

Notes

Kjellberg and Saflund. Greek and Roman Art. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Page 156. Public: No