Bartlett Head and the Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
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Title: Bartlett HeadHead of Aphrodite ("The Bartlett Head" )
Greek
Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
about 330\u2013300 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 055; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 108 (additional published references); Highlights: Classical Art (MFA), p. 086.
DIMENSIONS
Head without socle: 28.8 x 18.1 x 24.8 cm (11 5/16 x 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.) Head on socle: 42 cm (16 9/16 in) Historic socle: 13.8 x 13.8 cm (5 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
03.743
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Parian marble
ON VIEW
Greek & Roman Sculpture Gallery (Gallery 211)
COLLECTIONS
CLASSIFICATIONS
So-called Bartlett Head of Aphrodite, associated with the style of Praxiteles. Important and rare original example of late Classical or early Hellenistic sculpture. Neck is worked for insertion into a full length statue, now lost. Well preserved except for a small break at the tip of the nose.
Provenance
By date unknown: Found in Athens; formerly in the possession of the late Mr. Pallis (according to L. D. Caskey, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Sculpture, no. 28); by 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Found opposite the Monasteri Rwy station, Athens); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903
Credit Line
Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
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