Draped Female Figure

between 2nd and 1st century BCE

Greek

On View

Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

The beautifully draped statue of a mature woman may be a representation of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. A flat surface on the folds of the cloak against the left arm of the figure may have held a tablet, an attribute of Calliope. She might have been fashioned as a funerary monument, representing a deceased matron as Calliope, or as part of a public sculpture with all nine muses portrayed. Her stance produces a gentle curve to her body. Since the back of the statue is unfinished it was presumably set against a wall or in a niche. The work of art appears to be a late Hellenistic copy of an early Hellenistic creation, elegant even though incomplete.

Title Draped Female Figure

Artwork Date between 2nd and 1st century BCE

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Greek

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Marble

Dimensions Overall: 71 × 26 × 19 1/2 inches (180.3 × 66 × 49.5 cm) Mount: 23 × 23 × 23 inches (58.4 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 24.113

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(Lucerne Fine Art Co.)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Booth, Ralph H. et al. "Report of the Arts Commission for the Year 1924," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 5 (February 1925): 46–55, front cover (ill.), pp. 46, 50.

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 34. (ill.).

Henshaw, Julia, ed. A Visitor's Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 113 (ill.).

Lindner, M. "The Woman from Frosinone: Honorific Portrait Statues of Roman Imperial Women," MAAR, vol. 51/52. 2006–2007, pp. 43–85, (fig. 1, 1a-g) [as by an unknown Roman maker from the Claudian era, depicting Livia as Juno]

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