Woman Plaiting Her Hair

1595-1610 (Baroque) H: 6 15/16 in. (17.7 cm) Citation Source image

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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31470
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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6
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bronze

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