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LOT 2378
Large White Marble Bust of Diana the Huntress
19TH CENTURY A.D.
26 3/4 in. (66.5 kg, 68 cm high).
The goddess shown in an elegant pose with her head turned to the right and her gaze directed upwards, wearing a laurel leaf crown and a loose garment covering her left breast, leaving the right one exposed, narrow quiver strap crossing over her right shoulder; her hair dressed in soft waves and pulled to a chignon at the nape of her neck; old repair on the neck.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13080-246797.
Literature
Cf. for the Diana of Versailles and her copies Hekler, Antal, Az antik gipszgyüjtemény I-II., Budapest, 1919-1920, 1923, no.276.
Footnotes
In the 19th century, many studies of the hunter goddess were inspired by the 'Diana of Versailles', a 2nd-century Roman version in the Greek tradition of iconography, today in the collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
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