A Bronze Figure of a Goddess, Roman Imperial, Augustan, late 1st Century B.C./early 1st Century A.D.

standing with the weight on her left leg and head turned to her right, and wearing sandals, chiton, and peplos fastened on each shoulder and falling in long folds down her right side, the peplos formerly fastened with separately cast brooches probably made of silver, the missing arms cast separately, her finely modeled face with straight nose and eyes with recessed pupils, her centrally parted wavy hair bound in a chignon and surmounted by a stephane decorated with inlaid silver rosettes.

Jules Charvet (1824-1882), Château du Donjon, Le Pecq
Julien Gréau, Troyes, acquired between 1866 and 1878 (Drouot, Paris, Collection Julien Gréau. Catalogue des bronzes antiques et des objets d'art du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance, June 1st-9th, 1885, no. 935, pl. XXVII) 

Musée rétrospectif, Palais de l'Industrie, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1865
Exposition Universelle (Third Paris World's Fair), Palais du Trocadéro, Paris, May 1st to November 10th, 1878

Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie, Exposition de 1865. Palais de l'Industrie. Musée rétrospectif, Catalogue, Fascicule 2, Paris, 1865, p. 7, no. 66
François Lenormant, "Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'Industrie. Musée rétrospectif. Les antiques," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1866, vol. I, p. 174, illus. on p. 175
François Lenormant, "Books and Monuments Bearing upon Figured Representations of Antiquity," The Contemporary Review, London, vol. XXXIII, September 1878, p. 849
Olivier Rayet, "L'art grec au Trocadéro," in Louis Gonse, ed., L'art ancien à l'exposition de 1878, Paris, 1879, pp. 75-76, illus. on p. 70
Friedrich Wieseler, "Archäologische Excurse zu Pausanias I,24,3 und I,27,8," Nachrichten von der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augusts-Universität, 1886, p. 45
Karl Sittl, Archäologie der Kunst, Munich, 1895, p. 237, note 18
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. II.2, Paris, 1908, p. 333, no.1
International Herald Tribune, advertising supplement, Saturday-Sunday, January 7th-8th, 2006, p. 12, illus.
Apollo Magazine, February 2006, p. 27 (advertisement)
The New York Times, Sunday, March 18th, 2007, section 3, p. 3, illus.

as shown and described, and generally very good; the upper back of the statue is somewhat abraded and has some old corrosion; there is some corrosion to the face and small areas of the drapery at the proper right side and back. The two flanking rosettes on the diadem are fragmentary. The interior of the statue has at some point been weighted with lead.
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For a related figure cf. E. Babelon and J.-A. Blanchet, Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1895, no. 1045, pp. 453-455, attributed to the reign of Augustus.