Boxer at Rest is the ancient Greek sculpture depicting a seated, battered athlete wearing boxing gloves.
The bronze statue shows a muscular boxer resting after a fight, with a swollen ear, facial injuries, and a tense, upward glance. Its realistic details contrast with the idealized bodies common in earlier Classical Greek art. The boxer wears himantes, leather boxing gloves used in antiquity, wrapped around the hands and forearms.
The work is generally dated to the Hellenistic period, probably around the fourth or third century BCE, although its exact sculptor is unknown. It was discovered on Rome’s Quirinal Hill in 1885, together with another important Greek bronze, the Seated Boxer.
Boxer at Rest is sometimes called the Terme Boxer because it was displayed in Rome’s Museo Nazionale Romano at the Baths of Diocletian. It is not the same work as the Discobolus, which depicts an athlete preparing to throw a discus.