A Nereid Sitting on a Conch Shell

ca. 1877

20 cm 32.4 cm 17 cm

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A female nude is seated on a drapery-covered conch shell borne on a wave. Her head is wreathed with rushes.In reviewing the 1877 Salon, Charles Timball made the following observations regarding the marble version of this statue:One can be reproachful without being severe with...

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Owned by the widow of Augustin Jean Moreau-Vauthier; acquired by William T. Walters, Baltimore, around 1893; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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