Currently not on view
Statuette of Aphrodite (Louvre-Naples type), after a Greek original of ca. 420-410 B.C.,
probably late 2nd century CE
Roman
y1962-135
Information
Title
Statuette of Aphrodite (Louvre-Naples type), after a Greek original of ca. 420-410 B.C.
Dates
probably late 2nd century CE
Medium
Medium-grained white marble
Dimensions
preserved: 53.1 x 19.8 x base 9.2 cm (20 7/8 x 7 13/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Sampson, Class of 1914, for the Alden Sampson Collection
Object Number
y1962-135
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
Given to the Museum by Edward Sampson
- A. D. Fraser, "A new Venus genetrix in Washington", American journal of archaeology 39, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1935): p. 454-457., p. 454-57
- Domenico Mustilli, Il Museo Mussolini, (Roma: La Libreria dello Stato, 1939)., p. 39; cat. no. 36
- W. Fuchs, "Zum Aphrodite Typus Louvre-Neapel und seinen neuattischen Umbildungen," in Reinhard Lullies and Wolfgang Schadewaldt, eds., Neue Beiträge zur klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Festschrift zum 60: Geburtstag von Bernhard Schweitzer, herausgegeben von Reinhard Lullies, (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1954). , p. 217, note 62
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16
- William H. Peck, "A new Aphrodite in Detroit", Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 54, no. 3 (1976): p. 124-132., p. 125-32, note 16
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Margit Brinke, Kopienkritische und typologische Untersuchungen zur statuarischen Überlieferung der Aphrodite Louvre-Neapel, (Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 1991).
, p. 73, 212; cat. no. KM 612 - B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek originals, Roman copies and variants, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994)., no. 33, pp. 106-109, illus.
