Venus after the Bath

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.

Venus after the Bath

Giambologna

c. 1600

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

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop