Seated Nymph

1503

Antico

Associated Names
Antico

Artist, Mantuan, c. 1460 - 1528

The sculpture depicts a seated woman. Her upper body is turned slightly to the left, with her left leg crossed over her right. Her right arm is by her thigh, while the other is stretched out behind her, resting on the object she sits on. She is nude except for a cloth that drapes over her legs and waist. Her head is turned to the left, and her curly hair is tied back in a bun. Her hair and the cloth draped over her are both colored in bright gold, while the rest of the sculpture is dark brown. The sculpture is placed on a round brown base.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze with mercury gilding on the drapery and hair and silvering and silver foil in the eyes

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. Smith/Robert H. Smith Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (height without plinth): 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)
    overall (height with plinth): 22 cm (8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.181.13

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2011

  • Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Frick Collection, New York, 2011-2012, pl. 36.

Bibliography

1994

  • Allison, Ann Hersey. The Bronzes of Pier Jacopo Alari-Conacolsi, called Antico. Vienna, 1994: 181-185, version A, figs. 130-131.

2004

  • Radcliffe, Anthony and Nicholas Penny. Art of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500-1650. London, 2004: 68-69, 84-89, 154, 297-298, repro. no. 13.

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