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Lot Essay
For the type of Aphrodite leaning on a support cf. A. Delivorrias, 'Aphrodite', Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae II, Zurich, 1984, pp. 29-33, nos 185-224.
Stylistically the Aphrodite presented here most likely belongs to the 'Aphrodite in the Garden' type, the Greek original dating to the 5th Century B.C. by Alkamenes of Athens and mentioned by Pausanias, Guide to Greece, I, 19, 2 (LIMC, op. cit., pp. 30-31, nos 193-196). For a similar unveiled large-scale version of the 'Aphrodite in the Garden' in the Louvre, see no. MA414.
Stylistically the Aphrodite presented here most likely belongs to the 'Aphrodite in the Garden' type, the Greek original dating to the 5th Century B.C. by Alkamenes of Athens and mentioned by Pausanias, Guide to Greece, I, 19, 2 (LIMC, op. cit., pp. 30-31, nos 193-196). For a similar unveiled large-scale version of the 'Aphrodite in the Garden' in the Louvre, see no. MA414.