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Capitoline Venus


Medium/Technique Plaster
Credit Line Gift of the Boston Athenaeum—Gift of Augustus Thorndike
Accession Number33.1168
ClassificationsReproductions

DescriptionNineteenth-century reproduction of a Roman sculpture, about second century A.D., after a Greek work of the Hellenisitc period. Marble original in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy.
ProvenanceBy 1876, Boston Athenaeum [see note]; 1933, gift of the Boston Athenaeum to the MFA. (Accession date: January 29, 2014)

NOTE:
The Boston Athenaeum loaned this object to the MFA in 1876.