Fragment of Venus

Roman, circa 1st century AD
Marble
H. : 56 cm. – W. : 21 cm. – D. : 16 cm

Provenance:

Former 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.
Beaqueathed to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Acc. no. 23.47).
Property of the Walters Art Gallery, sold for the benefit of the Acquisition 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 of the Museum of Painting, Sculpture and Archaeology in Palazzo Accoramboni, vol. Il, Rome, 1897, p. 148, no. 36.