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Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Artist/Maker Unknown So-called “Venus de Milo” (Aphrodite from Melos). Parian marble, ca. 130-100 BC? Found in Melos in 1820. Detail of the upper block: join surface of the right upper arm, with mortise; attachment holes, which probably bore a metal armlet; strut hole above the navel, now covered with plaster. Dimensions H. 2.02 m (6 ft. 7 ½ in.) Credit line Gift of the Marquis de Rivière to Louis XVIII of France, 1821 Accession number Ma 399 (LL 299) Temporary location: Department of Paintings, Sully, first floor, room 74 References Hamiaux, M., Les Sculptures grecques, II, Paris, 1998, no. 52, pp. 41-44 Photographer/source Jastrow (2007)
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