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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roman, A Roman bronze figure of Venus, circa 1st - 2nd century AD

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A Roman bronze figure of Venus, circa 1st - 2nd century AD
Bronze
Height: 11.1 cm
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The goddess 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...
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The goddess 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

His de Salle Collection, sold, London, 1880, no. 330, p. 24

Hoffman Collection, sold 1889, no. 469, p. 123-4

Louis De Clercq (1882-1901), 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

A. de Ridder, Collection De Clercq. Catalogue, vol. 3: Les Bronzes, Paris, 1905, pl. 14, no. 88

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