PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHAUNCEY D. STILLMAN SOLD TO BENEFIT THE WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION

A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF VENUS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF VENUS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
22 1/8 in. (55.9 cm.) high

来源

James Stillman (1850-1918), New York; thence by descent to his eldest daughter, Elsie Stillman Rockefeller (1872-1935), New York; thence by descent to her son, Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899-1983) & his wife Helen Gratz Rockefeller (1900-1985), Greenwich and New York; thence by descent to Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989), New York, 1985.

拍品专文

The slightly arched back and forward position of the arms of the Venus presented here suggests she is a version of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos. She closely recalls the "Colonna" type, depicted nude, who leans on her himation which drapes over a hydria. See fig. 9 in C. Kondoleon et al., Aphrodite and the Gods of Love.

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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