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Torse

Late Period
4th century B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 128
La colonne au dos de ce torse a été cassée à l’endroit où était inscrit le nom de la personne représentée. Cependant l’inscription restante indique que l’homme avait rang de général et décline les charges qu’il assumait à Busiris, une ville du delta du Nil, et à Abydos, centre du culte d’Osiris dans le sud de l’Égypte. La facture raffinée du bras et de la poitrine, qui met l’accent sur les parties charnues du corps, préfigure le style ptolémaïque. Bien que ce chef-d’œuvre soit plus ou moins contemporain de l’art classique grec tardif et qu’il soit concevable que les sculpteurs égyptiens aient vu des œuvres grecques, son style ne renie en rien la tradition égyptienne, qui avait été relancée au cours de la XXXe dynastie (380 – 343 av. J.-C.).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titre: Torse
  • Période: Période tardive
  • Date: IVe siècle av. J.-C.
  • Technique: Méta-grauwacke
  • Dimensions: 62,2 x 32,8 x 27 cm
  • Crédits: Achat, don de Lila Acheson Wallace, don de Henry Walters (échange), don de Asher B. Edelman, Judith et Russell Carson, legs de Ernest L. Folk III, fonds Ludlow Bull, et fonds de divers autres donateurs, 1996
  • Accession Number: 1996.91
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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