Lot 152
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A ROMAN MARBLE DIANA
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A ROMAN MARBLE DIANA

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE DIANA
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Standing with weight on her right leg, draped in a diaphanous chiton, with a goat skin crossed over the top, its head and right foreleg hanging at the left side, another leg hanging over her left shoulder and a third hanging down the back, bound under the breasts, remains of wavy lock of hair on the right shoulder, remains of support strut at rear of right leg
22 in. (56 cm.) high
Provenance
R. S. collection, USA.
with Nancy L. McGlashan, Inc., New York, 1994.
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Lot Essay

For the type, cf. 'Artemis portant une peau de bete', Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. II, Zurich and Munich, pp. 651-653, and for similar cf. J. Reader, Die antiken Skulpturen in Petworth House, Mainz am Rhein, 2000, pp. 93-95, pl. 40,1-2, no. 24.
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