Harvard Art Museums > 1920.44.135: Fragment of a Seated Nude Female Figure, copy after a Hellenistic type 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"Fragment of a Seated Nude Female Figure, copy after a Hellenistic type , 1920.44.135,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292561. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1920.44.135 Title Fragment of a Seated Nude Female Figure, copy after a Hellenistic type Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 117-190 CE Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292561 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble from mainland Greece, Pentelic (?) Dimensions 18.6 cm (7 5/16 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 1920.44.135 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 199063 Fragment of a Seated Nude Female Figure All parts are missing above the waist; the knees and part of the left thigh are also missing. The surfaces are damaged and worn. The statue appears to have been a Roman copy of a Hellenistic type, probably carved in the second century A.D. The nude figure is seated, with legs a little apart, upon some drapery spread over a pyramidal-shaped rock, set on a rough, circular base. Part of her left hand touching the drapery beside her is visible. The draper flows down in wide folds and stops just beneath her feet. She is seated slightly to the right of the seat. The figure is patently fat and unideal. The subject may be Lamia seated in the country; known from Aristophanes and various Greek vases, this very rotund, sometimes sphinx-like creature would be a very suitable subject for the decorative naturalism of Hellenistic sculpture (Vermeule, E., 1977, pp. 296-297). 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. 81, no. 63 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
