Description
The statuette’s scale speaks to its likely place in private, intimate settings. The serpentine composition would have encouraged close examination from multiple angles. Compare the complexity of her pose to the relatively static Venus with a Burning Urn (1948.171).
Provenance
Samuel Mather Bishop, 1851-1931 (Cleveland, Ohio), by inheritance to his daughter, Constance Mather Bishop.; Constance Mather Bishop, upon her death, by inheritance to Jonathan S. Bishop.; Jonathan S. Bishop, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
Accession Number
1993.230
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
Overall: 25.6 x 7 x 9 cm (10 1/16 x 2 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop