A GREEK MARBLE APHRODITE

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK MARBLE APHRODITE
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
The goddess standing on an integral low plinth, draped in a high-belted chiton that has fallen open at the right shoulder revealing her breast, her himation rolled below her waist and draped over her extended left arm, its broad heavy folds contrasting with the thin vertical folds of the chiton below, depicted with an attenuated torso and long thin neck, her small head angled to the left and downturned, her melon-coiffure pulled back in a chignon, her oval face with idealized features
23¼ in. (59.1 cm.) high

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Mrs. J.T., Belgium, acquired in 1956, thence by descent.
Swiss Art Market, 1993.

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The drapery and stance of this statue follow the tradition of an Aphrodite originally from the east pediment of the Parthenon, attributed to Phidias from the 430s B.C. According to Bieber (Ancient Copies, p. 94), Hans Scrader once noted of the type, "The dress is neither a second skin following the body, nor a thick draping which hides its form. Rather, it has its own life without disturbing the organic forms of the body. The folds play over the mighty forms of the goddess' body like clear water which ripples in small waves over the sand when the tide begins to rise." According to Bieber, p. 93, op. cit., unlike other Aphrodite types, this arrangement was only used for depictions of the goddess and was never given a portrait head in the Roman Period. Bieber continues, p. 95, op. cit., in the Hellenistic Period, artists adapted the type to "conform to the tastes of their own time. ... This helps to change the harmonious Classical forms to the elongated Hellenistic figures with broad hips and narrow upper body" as seen on the present example; see also fig. 450, op. cit.