Capitoline Aphrodite Louvre Ma 571

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Artist/Maker Unknown
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type. Marble, Roman copy of the 2nd century AD after a Hellenistic reelaboration of Praxiteles Cnidian Aphrodite. Found in Rome.
Dimensions H. 31 cm (12 in.)
Credit line Borghese Collection; purchase, 1807
Accession number Ma 571 (MR 671)

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17
Photographer/source Jastrow (2007)

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