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Inv. n°: CL1501

Roman Statuette of Aphrodite Removing Her Sandal

The goddess of love, beauty and fertility is nude except for her himation which is draped over her shoulders and round her arms. She is standing with her left leg raised and crossed over her right, with her right arm pendant and in the position of removing her sandal. Her long hair is falling onto the shoulders and she is wearing a diadem.

h. 18.8 x w. 11.5 x d. 6.5 cm
1st-2nd century AD
Bronze

Provenance

  • French private collection
  • With Galerie Samarcande, Paris
  • Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries at Sotheby's Antiquities Sale, London, July 11, 1988, lot 166, anonymous sale
  • Sold to John Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1989
  • With Seaby antiquities gallery, London, 2005
  • Christies New York, The Morvern Collection of Ancient Art Sale, New York, June 8, 2004, lot 505
  • J. S. Bach Trust collection, Miami, Florida
  • Re-acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2008
  • Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, June 24, 2009

Publications

  • Sotheby's, Antiquities Sale, London, July 11, 1988, pp. 101-102, lot 166
  • C.C. Vermeule and J. M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, 1995, no. 89-50
  • Christie's, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art Sale, June 9, 2004, lot 505
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, November/December 2004, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 40
  • J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2009, vol. XX, p. 35, fig. 59
  • J. Spier, "Roman Bronzes" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, p. 135, fig. 14

Exhibitions

  • From Olympus to the underworld, Ancient bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, March 26, 1996 — March 26, 1996
  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from December 2011

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