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| Keywords: Barthélemy Prieur - Woman Bathing - Walters 54718 - Profile.jpg In antiquity sculptors often depicted Venus bathing or doing her hair During the Renaissance a bathing woman not always Venus was again a popular subject for small bronzes It offered the male collector the voyeuristic pleasure of gazing at an unclothed woman who is unaware of being observed Giambologna created famous small bronzes of this type with gracefully elongated bodies Barthelemy Prieur the sophisticated Sculptor to the King to Henry IV of France was influenced by them but created statuettes in a more intimate format depicting different moments of a woman's personal toilette in naturalistic poses Conceived for the private enjoyment of the collector they invite one's touch with their smooth curving backs Groupings of these figures in 17th-century inventories suggest they were collected in sets between 1595 1610 Baroque bronze cm 19 4 accession number 54 718 19514 Jacques Seligmann Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters The Mannerists Fort Wayne Art Museum Indiana Fort Wayne; Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin 1963-1965 The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Baroque sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Barthélemy Prieur Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
