Two Women Wrestling

1675-1690 (Baroque)

18.3 cm 38.7 cm 18.5 cm

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Wrestling matches between scantily clad women as well as men were a form of court entertainment in 17th-century Italy. Casts of "Two Women Wrestling" were sometimes paired with "Two Men Wrestling." The subject of women wrestling is not ancient, and a life-size statue would sho...

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Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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