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Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Artist/Maker Unknown
Crouching Aphrodite. Marble, Roman copy of the 2nd century AD after a Hellenistic original of the 3rd century BC, loosely derived from the Cnidian Aphrodite by Praxiteles.
Dimensions H. 71 cm (27 ¾ in.)
Credit line Borghese Collection; purchase, 1807
Accession number Ma 5 (MR 372)
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17
Photographer/source Jastrow (2007)
See also : Greek Mythology. Paintings, Drawings
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