Woman Combing Her Hair
In antiquity, sculptors often depicted Venus bathing or doing her hair. During the Renaissance, a bathing woman (not always Venus) was again a popular subject for small bronzes. It offered the male collector the voyeuristic pleasure of gazing at an unclothed woman who is unawa...
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Artifact
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14833
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object
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normalized
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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| language |
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en
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6
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.505_VwD_DD_T13.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.505_VwD_DD_T13.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.505_VwD_DD_T13.jpg |
| imageCount | 6 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.505 |
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Medium
bronze
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