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Rider
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRider, c. 400–375 BCE. Greece, perhaps from workshop of Tarentum. Bronze; overall: 13.3 x 7.6 cm (5 1/4 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1977.41
