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evidence. The head, though similar to that of the statuette, also 
discloses marked differences, and the legs of the two works do not 
have the same pose. Loewy agrees with Amelung that the statue 
of Pythokles conformed with the type of the Diadoumenos—espe- 
cially with the Vaison copy (see Fig. 28) 
—and with that of the Doryphoros.. We 
can not, therefore, safely assume that the 
statue of Pythokles has been recovered in 
any existing copy.? A further variant of. 
the works just discussed should be men- 
tioned here—the beautiful marble statue 
of a boy victor in Dresden, known as the 
Dresden Boy (Fig. 45). In this statue the 
leg position is nearly like that indicated 
by the marks on the Pythokles basis, 
though the left foot is not set so far back 
nor its tip so far out. The head is turned 
to the left and slightly lowered, the right 
arm hung to the side, and the left fore- 
arm was outstretched, the hand doubtless 
holding some athletic article, at which the 
boy is looking down, perhaps a diskos* or 
a fillet. This beautiful athlete statue has 
many stylistic points in common with the © 
Diadoumenos, and shows similar Attic in- 
fluence, and its original may be referred 
with Furtwaengler to the later period of 
the master himself. It gives us an excel- 
lent idea how Polykleitos may have made 
his Olympia boy victors appear. A more 

Fic. 45.— Statue of a Boy 
: ; Victor (the Dresden Boy). 
remote variant seems to be furnished by AIbEHiniiia Dresden 
a fourth-century B.C. bronze statuette of a 
youthful athlete in the Louvre. Here the position of the feet, the 
1Wiener Studien, XXIV, 1902, pp. 398 f.; he is, therefore, against the Pythokles ascription; see 
also Studniczka in Jh. oest. arch. Inst., 1906, p. 131. 2Cf. also Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, pp. 570 f. 
3Hettner, Die Bildw. d. kgl. Antikensamml. zu Dresden, no. 90 (=a doryphoros); Furtw., M>., Pl. 
XII (whence our plate) and fig. 112 (head from cast, two views), on p. 267; discussion, pp. 265 f.; 
Mw., Pls. XXVI, XXVII (the head from a cast and the restored left forearm omitted) and text, 
pp. 475 f.; Clarac, 948, 2437. Furtwaengler mentions three other copies of the statue and three 
of the head. 2G 
4On a fourth-century B. C. Panathenaic prize vase we see an athlete in a similar pose holding a 
diskos in his left hand: Mon. d. I., X, 1874-78, Pl. XLVIII, g, 10 (quoted by Furtwaengler, Mp., 
. 266, n. 6). 
: ae in the Coll. Pourtalés, and then in the Coll. Gréau: W. Froehner, Cat. des bronzes 
antiques de la Collection Gréau, 1885, Pl. XXXII, p. 204, no. 964; de Ridder, Les Bronzes antiques 
du Louvre, I, 1913, Pl. 19, no. 184, and p. 34; Mahler, Polyklet und seine Schule, pp. 57 f. and 
fig. 13; Furtwaengler, Mp., p. 278, Mw., p. 490; Reinach, Rép., II, 2, 546, 3. It is 0.218 meter 
high. Froehner had interpreted the statuette as that of an oil-pourer, though the position of the 
hands is against it. 
