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Draped torso of a woman
Roman
Imperial Period, Julio-Claudian
about A.D. 50–60
Medium/Technique
Marble
Dimensions
Overall: 123 cm, 319.3 kg, 29.2 × 55.9 cm (48 7/16 in., 703.93 lb., 11 1/2 × 22 in.)
Block (Steel channel frame (A) steel palette base): 5.7 × 67.3 × 55.9 cm (2 1/4 × 26 1/2 × 22 in.)
Block (Back support wall palette with side arms): 127 × 81.3 × 6 cm (50 × 32 × 2 3/8 in.)
Block (Steel channel frame (A) steel palette base): 5.7 × 67.3 × 55.9 cm (2 1/4 × 26 1/2 × 22 in.)
Block (Back support wall palette with side arms): 127 × 81.3 × 6 cm (50 × 32 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8191
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 337; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 114 (additional published references).
DescriptionFragmentary, draped statue of a woman standing in contrapposto with the right leg engaged and the left slightly bent. She wears a tunic and a mantle (palla) tightly wrapped around her body and right arm, and hanging over her left arm. A ring adorns the ring finger of her left hand. A corkscrew curl, reminiscent of a hairstyle worn by Agrippina the Younger, falls on the left shoulder. The back is finished.
Broken in two sections joined above the knees. Missing are the head, which was carved in the same block as the body, left foot and ankle, lower part of the right leg, and part of the drapery on the left leg. Cracks are visible over the left shoulder; and signs of modern polishing over the left hand and forearm.
Broken in two sections joined above the knees. Missing are the head, which was carved in the same block as the body, left foot and ankle, lower part of the right leg, and part of the drapery on the left leg. Cracks are visible over the left shoulder; and signs of modern polishing over the left hand and forearm.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901