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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, 11th July 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, 8th June 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, 24th June 2009

Publications

Sotheby's, Antiquities Sale, London, 11th July 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, 9th June 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, 26th March 1996 — 26th March 1996
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from December 2011

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Roman Statuette of Aphrodite Removing Her Sandal

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