Statuette of a Woman

Art Institute of Chicago

Statuette of a Woman

Greek; BoeotiaLinkedCulture matchlcp-00cc3957ee47

Date
about 450 BCE
Medium
terracotta, polychromy
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
222013

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Industrious workshops in Boeotia produced thousands of mold-made terracotta statuettes for religious, decorative, and funerary use for several centuries. This engaging statuette represents a woman whose down-turned eyes and pursed lips lend her a dejected air. Her hair is drawn up on the crown of her head and wrapped in a length of patterned cloth. She is clothed in a full-length, sleeveless dress and adorned with a necklace with seven pendants and a pair of bracelets on each arm. Remarkable for the preservation of its bold red, vivid yellow, and black coloration, this figurine reminds viewers that many ancient sculptures were once brightly painted.

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Credit line
Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s London, May 4, 1970, lot 87 to Imre and Nicholas T. Molnar; by descent to an heir; sold, Arte Primitivo, Howard S. Rose Gallery, January 24, 2006, lot 83, to a Los Angeles dealer [correspondence with Howard Rose in curatorial file]; sold, Christie’s, London, October 6, 2011, lot 70, to James Ede, Charles Ede, Ltd, London; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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Object type
AAT300301253

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