A ROMAN WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A ROMAN WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Depicting Venus, the goddess nimbate, holding the edge of her mantle in her raised right hand, the mantle pale pink with highlights in white, a pale blue garment gathered along her upper thighs, her body otherwise nude, her reddish brown hair falling onto her shoulders, her gaze angled up and to her left, on a black ground
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high
来源
with Elie Borowski, Basel, acquired in the 1960s.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 1988.

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G. Max Bernheimer
G. Max Bernheimer

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For the pose compare the figure of Leda on a IVth Style wall-painting from the House of the Gilded Cupids at Pompeii, pl. 77 in Cerulli-Irelli, et al., La Peinture de Pompéi.