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Aphrodite Drying Her Hair (Anadyomene)
This statuette, carved fully in the round, depicts Venus (Aphrodite) drying her hair; the sections that would have connected the long locks in her hands to her head are broken and missing.
Provenance
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Robinson Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Wyndham F. Cook, London, by 1905, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Cook Catalogue, Vol. II, no. 280, pl. 16]; Humphrey W. Cook, London, 1905, by inheritance; Sale, London, Christie's, July 14, 1925; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1930, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1947 | Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 5/31/1963 | Treatment | cleaned |
Measurements
Overall: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.161