1ST CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS-FORTUNA
1ST CENTURY A.D.
The standing goddess with weight on left leg, right leg bent at the knee, wearing long sleeveless chiton, a mantle wrapped around her waist and tied in knot on left hip, with head turned to right and hair rolled beneath crescent-shaped decorated stephane and drawn back into a chignon, long tresses falling onto her shoulders, arms missing, mounted
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

来源

Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959); acquired from Dr Lederer, 1936.

展览

Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1973-1974.

注意事项

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拍场告示

Please note there is a pencil note in German on the underside of the mount reading "from Knidos".

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
K. A. Neugebauer, Antiken in Deutschem Privatbesitz, Berlin, 1938, p. 27, no. 87, pl. 38.
Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1973-1974, pp. 154-154, no. 230, pl. 102.

The lack of any attributes makes it difficult to firmly identify this figure although the sensuous curving of her body and the clinging drapery would suggest an identification with Venus. Her clothing is reminiscent of Hellenistic Tyche-Fortuna representations and Venus is later associated with Fortuna. Her head is turned slightly to the right and she gazes downwards, no doubt at an attribute held in her left hand; her right hand held up to her locks of hair.

Her facial features are particularly striking and it has been suggested that this could be a portrait of a member of the early Imperial household depicted as the goddess Venus-Fortuna.