A Greek bronze statuette of a draped female figure
Hellenistic Period, circa 2nd Century B.C.
Standing with her weight on her left leg, her right knee bent, wearing a heavily-pleated chiton with a knotted belt beneath the breasts and swathed in a himation falling from her left shoulder and across her waist, her right foot emerging from beneath her drapery, 15.3cm high注脚Provenance:
with Galerie Koutoulakis, Paris.
Private collection, France, acquired from the above in the 1960s.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 15 October 2008, lot 216.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

The high-belted chiton and enveloping himation worn by the female subject are typically Hellenistic. This statuette may be associated with a group of votive figures made in Latium and Etruria in the later Hellenistic period; cf. a half life-sized bronze figure of a young woman said to have been found with smaller statuettes near the Sanctuary of Diana in the Alban hills, and now in the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1920,0612.1. The British Museum example is lauded for her 'elongated proportions...[and] angular grace' (S. Haynes, Etruscan Bronzes, London, 1985, no. 196, p. 321).