A Roman Marble Figure of a Goddess, circa 1st Century A.D.

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

A Roman Marble Figure of a Goddess
Height 14 1/4 in. 36.5 cm.

probably Aphrodite, after a Hellenistic version of a Greek work of the 5th Century B.C., the goddess leaning against a pillar with her weight on the right leg, the left hand and right forearm carved separately and now missing, and wearing a chiton bound under the breasts and himation draped over the left shoulder and falling in long zigzag folds down to her feet.

Provenance

American private collection, acquired in the early 1970s

Catalogue Note

For related Hellenistic and Roman small-scale adaptations of the "leaning Aphrodite," a Classical Greek creation referred to by Bieber as the Valentini-Lazzeroni type, compare Louvre, inv. no. AO 20126, from Dura-Europos (Bieber, Ancient Copies, pl. 74, fig. 450; LIMC, vol. II, p. 164, no. 214), and National Museum, Athens, no. 1885 (Bieber, op. cit, fig. 449).