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A Marble Figure of a Muse, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- A Marble Figure of a Muse, Roman Imperial
- Height 17 in. 43.2 cm.
based on a Greek prototype of the 2nd Century B.C., seated on a rocky outcrop with her legs crossed, her right elbow resting on the thigh and right hand clasped under the missing head, and wearing a long chiton and himation fastened under the neck, wrapped around the shoulders, falling over the back, and draped over her lap.
Provenance
Dr. Reboul, Avignon, collected in the 1950s
Catalogue Note
For other examples of this type, called the Urania-Frankfurt Muse, see D. Pinkwart, Das Relief des Archelaos von Priene und die "Musen des Philiskos", 1965, pp. 205ff. Also see D. Grassinger, Antike Marmorskulptur auf Schloss Broadlands (Hampshire), Mainz am Rhein, 1994, no. 6, figs. 50-64. The present example differs from the Hellenistic prototype in the angle of the right leg and the arrangement of the drapery.