Roman marble torso of Venus, c.1st century AD
Marble
Height: 26cm
11851
£ 35,000
Further images
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 1938Mr 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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