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| Keywords: French - Phyrne - Walters 71368.jpg Phyrne stands on an ivory socle mounted on a wooden base Her elaborately braided coiffure is bound with a ribbon and a strand of graduated pearls Turning her head she shields her face with her left forearm Phyrne ambiguously conteracts this gesture of modesty by raising her right arm over her head to display her voluptuous torso to best advantage In the 19th century the famous courtesan was popularized by Jean-Léon Gérôme's masterpiece of 1861 Phyrne before the Tribunal illustrating the titillating moment when the orator Hypereides won his client's acquittal by baring her bosom to the appreciative Athenian judges Having served as the model for Praxiteles and Apelles as well the subject of Phyrne offered artists an occasion for representing an idealized nude Gérôme's figure frequently served as the prototype for representations of Phrne in bronze ivory and silver The anonymous Walters ivory differs from Gèrôme's composition in the position of the figure's arms 2nd half Other date century 19 ivory cm 27 4 accession number 71 368 13264 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid; J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles; Musee D'Orsay Paris 2010-2011 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
