A Marble Torso of Ganymede, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

based on a Hellenistic prototype, standing with the weight on his right leg and wearing a chlamys fastened on his right shoulder.

Léon de Somzée, 22 rue des Palais, Brussels (auction on the premises, Collections de Somzée. Première partie. Monuments d'Art Antique, May 24th, 1907, no. 74, illus.)
French private collection, acquired at the above sale
by descent to the present owner

Adolf Furtwaengler, Collection Somzée. Monuments d'art antique, Munich, 1897
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. VI, 2nd ed., Paris, 1913, p. 375, no. 4

All extremities formerly restored, presumably in marble based on presence of iron and lead pins still inserted in torso as well as of other holes which have lost their pins, surface evenly weathered overall, left buttock slitghtly abraded, chip on righ hip, channel carved in back of chlamys has remains of a lead clamp, restoration to proper left thigh visible in Somzee catalogue photo is now lost.
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The left thigh projects forward and slighly out, indicating that the present figure stood leaning with his legs crossed. For an example of Ganymede standing in the same attitude and wearing a chlamys see Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. IV, 1988, p. 161, no. 124, pl. 84.