Acrobat Performing a Handstand

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Hellenistic-Ptolemaic) H: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm) Citation Source image

This cast bronze acrobat is missing his left hand, right hand and right forearm but was balanced on his hands with his legs and feet pressed together above him. A life-size marble version of this figure at the British Museum shows the acrobat poised in a handstand over a croco...

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[Said to be from Armant, Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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