Details

LOT 0138

Roman Marble Torso of Aphrodite

1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

17 1/4 in. (23.4 kg total, 44 cm including stand).

Carved in the round as a torso of a slender female with hips turned, probably in contrapposto pose; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Provenance

Ex private collection.
with Artemis Gallery, Munich, Germany, early 1990s.
Acquired from the above, 1999.
Private European collection.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12101-218196.

Literature

See Pryce, F.N., Smith, A.H., Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, London, 1892-1928; cf. Jules Formigé, ‘Note sur la Vénus d'Arles’, in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 55,8, 1911, pp.658-664; La Rocca, E., Le tranquille dimore degli dei (catalogo mostra), Roma 1986, pp.79-82, on the Esquiline Venus; Favaretto, I., Menegazzi, A., Un museo di antichita’ nella Padova del Cinquecento. La raccolta Marco Mantova Benavides all’Universita’ di Padova, Roma, 2016.