Standing Partially Draped Woman
(Ancient Greece )
This terracotta statuette shows a woman leaning against a column with her loose drapery falling partially revealing her body. Traces of paint are visible at the bottom of her garment on the front. The statuette is not modeled in the back, where there is a large, rectangular vent hole.
Provenance
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Frances Haley Blomquist, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jenny Blomquist, Annapolis, Maryland, 2001, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
Geographies
Greece (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 1/2 x W: 3 7/16 in. (24.2 x 8.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Frances Haley Blomquist, 2008
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.
23.281