Marble Statue of a Girl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Marble statue of a girl
Roman, Imperial period, 1st or 2nd century AD
Copy or adaptation of a Greek work of the 3rd or 2nd century BC
Restorations made in the early 17th century: the back of the head, neck, plinth with both feet and the drapery adjoining the left foot, drapery folds along the left side. The face itself is ancient but from a different statue.

Accession # 03.12.9

During the Hellenistic period, sculptors delighted in the rendition of of complex layers of drapery. This figure was once part of the collection formed by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani in Rome.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.