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Reclining Woman
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This small alabaster figure represents a nude reclining woman, her legs, back, and proper left arm draped in a mantle. Several features of the original figure are not preserved: the hair was added in stucco or bitumen, the eyes were inlaid, and details such as jewelry were rendered in paint. Both feet and the lower part of the proper left arm are lost (the break in the arm was cut and drilled in modern times to attach the statuette to a wooden base).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl (1880-1936) and Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl (1889-1986) New York by descent; to their son Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl II (1929-2011) Rochester Massachusetts. Private Collection Massachusetts (2011-2013) sold; [through Sotheby's New York 5 June 2013] lot 93 to Harvard Art Museums 2013.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Marian H. Phinney Fund
Title: Reclining Woman
Description:
This small alabaster figure represents a nude reclining woman, her legs, back, and proper left arm draped in a mantle.
Several features of the original figure are not preserved: the hair was added in stucco or bitumen, the eyes were inlaid, and details such as jewelry were rendered in paint.
Both feet and the lower part of the proper left arm are lost (the break in the arm was cut and drilled in modern times to attach the statuette to a wooden base).
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