A nude youth stands with his weight on one leg, the other knee slightly bent, so that hips, spine and shoulders shift in response. It is the earliest surviving statue to show this relaxed stance, contrapposto, and marks the break from the stiff archaic kouros. Found in the Persian debris on the Acropolis, it is attributed, on slender evidence, to the sculptor Kritios.
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Compare the face with earlier kouroi: the archaic smile has gone, replaced by a grave, level expression. The torso was found in 1865, the head twenty-three years later.
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