A ROMAN MARBLE DIANA

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE DIANA
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The goddess depicted standing, her left knee bent, wearing a short tunic belted below her breasts, both arms bent upward, her right hand raised to her right shoulder, fastening a heavy cascading mantle along her left side, her left hand holding the top fold, the remains of her bow at her right side
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Boris Mussienko, Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
William Froelich, New York, acquired from the above, 1981.

Lot Essay

This statue depicting Diana fastening her mantle is based on a classical Greek lifesized statue, sometimes attributed to Praxiteles, known as "Diana of Gabii" now in the Louvre (see M. Bieber, Ancient Copies: Contributions to the History of Greek and Roman Art, no. 269). It has been suggested, with some debate, that the Louvre statue represents Artemis Brauronia based on the fact that part of the ritual at her sanctuary at Brauron involved young women dedicating expensive cloaks to the goddess (see p. 73, op. cit.).

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