Roman
A Roman bronze figure of Aphrodite, circa 1st - 2nd century AD
Bronze
Height: 11.1 cm
Further images
A Roman copy after a Hellenistic original showing the goddess of love adjusting her sandal. She is depicted nude, standing on her right leg, bending forwards, her torso twisting to...
A Roman copy after a Hellenistic original showing the goddess of love adjusting her sandal. She is depicted nude, standing on her right leg, bending forwards, her torso twisting to lean down with her now missing right arm towards her raised left foot, wearing an armlet on her raised left arm, her hair tied back at the nape of her neck with a stephane in her hair.
Provenance
Aimé Charles Horace His de La Salle (1795 - 1878) Collection, Paris, France
Sotheby's, London, 22-25 November 1880, lot 330
H. Hoffman Collection, Paris, France, before 1889
Louis de Clercq (1882 - 1901) Collection, Oignies, France, acquired from the above in 1889, thence by descent to his grand-nephew Comte Henri de Boisgelin (1901 - 1967), rue de Mazarine, Paris
Literature
This statuette is a small-scale version after a Greek original showing the goddess bending down to adjust her sandal. The type has its origins in Hellenistic Alexandria and Asia Minor of the 3rd century BC. Cf. LIMC, II, 2, Aphrodite, p. 45, no. 476-8.
Publications
W. Froehner, Catalogue H. Hoffmann: catalogue des objets d'art antiques, Paris, 1889, no. 469, p. 123-4.A. de Ridder, Collection De Clercq. Catalogue, vol. 3: Les Bronzes, Paris, 1905, pl. 14, no. 88.