Head of a Maiden

3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)

3.9 cm 5.8 cm 5.2 cm

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The elongated eyes, bow-shaped mouth, and pronounced fleshy folds across the neck (known as "Venus rings") identify the head as a Hellenistic refinement of a style introduced by the 4th-century BCE sculptor Praxiteles.

Sculpture

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40497
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sculpture
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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7
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