Fragment of a Venus

circa 1st century AD
Marble
58.5 x 30 x 23 cm (23 x 11 ³/₄ x 9 inches)
H.: 58.5 cm. - W.: 30 cm. - D.: 23 cm.

Provenance:

In the collection of Don Marcello Massarenti (1817–1905), Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni, Rome, acquired before 1897.
Then in the collection of Henry Walters (1848–1931), New York and Baltimore, acquired from the former in 1902; bequeathed to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Acc. no. 23.47).
Property of the Walters Art Gallery, sold for the benefit of the Acquisitions Fund; sold by Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12–13 December 1991, lot 65.
With Axel Vervoordt N.V., Gravenwezel, Belgium, 2002.
Then in the Onzea-Govaerts collection, Belgium.
 

Publications:

Catalogue of Pictures, Marbles, Bronzes, Antiquities, &c., &c., Palazzo Accoramboni, Rome, 1894, p. 181, no. 36.
E. van Esbroeck, Catalogue du musée de peinture, sculpture et archéologie au Palais Accoramboni (“Catalogue of the painting, sculpture and archaeology museum in the Palazzo Accoramboni”), Vol. Il, Rome, 1897, p. 148, no. 36.