Harvard Art Museums > 1920.44.151: Standing Draped Female Figure, after a Greek original of c. 350 BC Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Standing Draped Female Figure, after a Greek original of c. 350 BC , 1920.44.151,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 17, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292181. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1920.44.151 Title Standing Draped Female Figure, after a Greek original of c. 350 BC Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 2nd century CE Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292181 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble from Western Asia Minor Dimensions 37 cm (14 9/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908). Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton Accession Year 1920 Object Number 1920.44.151 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199062 Standing Draped Female Figure The head and arms are missing. There are damages on the breast and back. The lower front edge of the drapery is missing. The right foot in its slipper or boot and the section of plinth in front are also broken away. There are traces of repair down the left side. The figure is of a type of the fifth century B.C., solidly reflecting a work of about 350 B.C. It is termed a Roman copy of the second century A.D. She stands with the weight on the right hip, the left knee bent. The drapery is arranged in diagonals across the torso, while the folds beneath, covering the legs, are in sharp, deeply cut verticals. The upper outer garment, a heavy mantle, also covered the upper part of the extended left arm (which may have been made separately) and was represented in heavy folds ending in a curve at the lower back. The remaining part of the small statue is similar to the bronze Athena from the Piraeus, in the National Museum, Athens (Bieber, 1977, pp. 33-34, fig. 61). This prototype would take the figure back at least to 350 B.C., and the extra wrinkles in the apron-like overgarment are explained as variations of the adaptors and copyists (as in the Athena Mattei in the Louvre, Paris: Waywell, 1971, pp. 373-382, pls. 66-72). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 80, no. 62 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
