Artemis Rospigliosi Louvre Ma559

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Artist/Maker Unknown

Artemis of the Rospigliosi type. Marble, Roman artwork of the Imperial Era, 1st–2nd centuries AD. Copy of a Greek original, maybe the the bronze group mentioned by Pausanias (I, 25, 2), which represented a gigantomachia.

Dimensions H. 1.63 m (5 ft. 4 in.)

Credit line Former Borghese Collection; purchased in 1807

Accession number Ma 559 (MR 156)

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully wing, ground floor, room 17

Photographer/source Jastrow (2006)

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