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Lot 1864 - S19 Dr Sylvia Legrain Collection - Wednesday, 20. September 2023, 10.00 AM

TORSO OF APHRODITE LOOSENING HER SANDAL

Late Hellenistic-Roman, 2nd century B.C. - 1st century A.D.
Marble carved full-round. Nude torso standing in contrapposto with the goddess Aphrodite loosening her sandal. On a later plinth.
H without plinth 34 cm.


Few retouches. Legs repaired.

Provenance:
- Former private collection, Paris, acquired in the 1970s (according to Royal Athena Gallery).
- Collection of Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres, Paris (according to Royal Athena Gallery).
- Royal Athena Gallery, New York, 2004 (according to Galerie Cahn).
- Collection Francesca Zijlstra, The Netherlands (according to Galerie Cahn).
- Galerie Cahn, Basel, November/December 2014.

With copy of a certificate of authenticity and import permit from the Royal Athena Gallery (March 17, 2005).

Cf. LIMC II, keyword Aphrodite, 1984, pp. 57-59, No. 464-481, plates 44-47.

A Roman torso of Aphrodite, strikingly similar in style, form, proportions and carving of the stone, below life-size, dated around the 1st century AD from the former Townley Collection, is in the British Museums in London (inv. No. 1805,0703.17).


CHF 80 000 / 120 000 | (€ 82 470 / 123 710)

Sold for CHF 93 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.