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Girl Bathing
Girl Bathing
Girl Bathing
Girl Bathing

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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This sculpture is a copy of a bronze thought to be by Adriaen de Vries (now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig). De Vries was born in The Hague, trained in the workshop of Giambologna in Florence and worked in Italy, then Augsburg, Germany and Prague. The bronze dates to about 1600, but this marble version was probably made in Italy in the first half of the eighteenth century. This pose is typical of classical images of the goddess Venus bathing, and it may stem originally from a marble sculpture of Venus washing her foot made in the second century AD (Uffizi Gallery, Florence). Giambologna’s workshop produced several similar versions which de Vries would have seen, and there are also similarities to one of the bronze figures around the Hercules Fountain in Augsburg, which is by de Vries.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Girl Bathing

Date

c.1700–1750

Medium

white Carrara marble

Measurements

H 49 x W 24 x D 29 cm

Accession number

NG6378

Acquisition method

purchased, 1966

Work type

Statue

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