Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 35. Roman marble torso of Venus, c.1st century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 35. Roman marble torso of Venus, c.1st century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 35. Roman marble torso of Venus, c.1st century AD
35. Roman marble torso of Venus, c.1st century AD
Marble
Height: 26cm
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Statuette of the goddess Venus, depicted nude and with her left leg slightly forward. Broken at the upper arms, across the thighs, and at the neck.

Provenance

Mr E. H. Dehaussy, France; brought back from Pompeii in 1938
Mr Jacques Henri Dehaussy, France; then by descent

Literature

This is a scaled down version of the Knidian type. For a life-size example see Cornelius C. Vermeule and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1990), p.52, no.35
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