Description
Certain statue types have been thought to depict particular Muses. This piece, for example, would have originally held a scroll and is considered to represent Clio.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
12/31/1969
Technical Report
x-ray diffraction; other
9/22/1977
Treatment
cleaned
10/04/1988
Treatment
cleaned; stabilized; loss compensation
Exhibitions
From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
Provenance
Fallani, Rome, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1928, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P5646]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
