Artemis or Amazon
sculptor
Unknown
Datelate 1st century
Place MadeAncient & Byzantine World-Europe
MediumPentelic marble
Dimensions134 cm (52 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS5c6
eMuseum ID728423
EmbARK ObjectID11272
TMS Source ID511
Last Updated10/31/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesPaul Arndt et al. Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Sculpturen nach Auswahl und mit Text (Munich, 1893-1947), nos. 172-74, 1793. (body, third quarter of the 5th century BCE; head, about 375 BCE "closer to the time of Praxiteles")
Hans Dragendorff. De vasculis Romanorum rubris capita selecta. PhD Diss. (Bonn: Universität Bonn, 1894), p. 36, no. 7. (as derrived from the Venus Genetrix type that is attributed to Alcamenes or a follower)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as "Statue of an Amazon")
S. Reinach. Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine II (Paris, 1931), p. 325. (stylistically associated with the Hope Dionysos, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; after a copy of a Greek original by Kephisodotos, about 435 BCE)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 44. (Graeco-Roman, after an original of the late 5th century BCE)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 34 (24 Apr. 1966), p. 2.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 8-9, no. 11. (Graeco-Roman, after an original of the 5th of first quarter or the 4th century BCE, perhaps by Kephisodotos; right foot and lower-left leg, likely from a different ancient statue, Roman)
Hans Dragendorff. De vasculis Romanorum rubris capita selecta. PhD Diss. (Bonn: Universität Bonn, 1894), p. 36, no. 7. (as derrived from the Venus Genetrix type that is attributed to Alcamenes or a follower)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as "Statue of an Amazon")
S. Reinach. Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine II (Paris, 1931), p. 325. (stylistically associated with the Hope Dionysos, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; after a copy of a Greek original by Kephisodotos, about 435 BCE)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 44. (Graeco-Roman, after an original of the late 5th century BCE)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 34 (24 Apr. 1966), p. 2.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 8-9, no. 11. (Graeco-Roman, after an original of the 5th of first quarter or the 4th century BCE, perhaps by Kephisodotos; right foot and lower-left leg, likely from a different ancient statue, Roman)
ProvenanceNotesSaid to have been found at Tusculum.
Published by the German archaeologist and antiquarian Paul Arndt (1865-1937) when it was on the art market in Rome in 1895.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before about 1900.
Published by the German archaeologist and antiquarian Paul Arndt (1865-1937) when it was on the art market in Rome in 1895.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before about 1900.
