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Roman statue of a draped goddess, 1st century BC- 1st century AD
MarbleHeight: 70cm10601 ELSoldFurther images
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The elegant figure wears a fine chiton which falls in a V above her breasts and has buttons running down the right arm. A himation is wrapped under her right arm and slung over her left shoulder, falling just above her bent knee, which breaks the vertical lines of the drapery. She is standing contrapposto, set on an integral ridged oval plinth, with her weight on her right leg. Wear and chips to the surface, and an ancient iron pin in the hollowed neck-line, a section of the base restored in the 18th or 19th century.
The purposefully roughened cavity at the base of the neck indicates that a separately carved head would have been inserted into the statue, perhaps of a more luminous marble. The identity of this sculpture is uncertain; the form and arrangement of the drapery closely follows known statues of Ceres, Hygeia and Agrippina.Provenance
Conte Antonio Barbaran Capra, Vicenza, Italy; acquired prior to 1879
According to H. Heydemann, Drittes Hallisches Winckelmannsprogramm (1879), p.11, the marbles from the Conte Antonio Barbaran Capra were deposited at the museum of Vicenza and available at high prices
Record of a photograph taken in 1932
Cachin collection, Paris, France; acquired 1950s-1960s
Mr Olivier Ferrer-Cachin, France; by descent from the above
Private collection, UK; by descent from the aboveLiterature
For an example of Ceres compare Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire Greque et Romaine, Vol.I (Paris, 1897), p.206, no.769. For an example of Agrippina compare ibid., p.571, no.2370. For two statues of Hygeia compare Elizabeth Angelicoussis, Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles, Vol.II (Munich, 2017), p.408, no.72 and the Hope Hygeia, now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number 50.33.23.
Publications
"Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Sculpturen" no.4003, 1879 -
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