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# Long description

This black and white photograph in portrait format depicts a full-length sculpture of a young athletic male figure. It is brightly lit against a dark background. The figure is naked except for a laurel crown, sandals and a cloth draped across his chest and over his extended left arm. The figure looks to the right of the picture space and seems to step forward with his right leg to the fore. His face is classically proportioned in profile with deep set eyes, a straight nose and full lips. He holds a small vertical object in his left hand. The right arm is held slightly away from the right side of his body and almost touches the sculpted tree stump that occupies the left side of the plinth on which the figure stands. A snake curls up the trunk, its head just beneath the figure’s right hand.