Venus after bathing

Standing, the left foot placed on a vase, she dries the left leg with the cloth. In the raised left hand she holds another cloth, which falls down on her shoulders. Versions among others in Florence, Museo Nazionale, in Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum.

Catalog F. Goldschmidt, Bronzestatuetten, No. 136 and otherwise. In Berlin also a variant that appears several times (catalog no. 135). The statuette is the counterpart of Goldschmidt No. 134.

Early collection A. v. Beckerath, auction catalog, Berlin 1916 (Lepke), no. 345.

Statuette. Bronze, brownish patina. H. 13 cm (without base). On upper Italian (Paduan) base from the beginning of the 16th century. Triangular candelabra base, carried by three dwarfs. On the sides a satyr blowing the double flute, a bacchant and a dancer. On the flattened edges ornamental fillings, on the underside a medallion with a bust portrait of a footed woman holding an arrow in her left hand. The upper section with ornamental filling and round central field. The same figures can be found on the Porta Stanga from Cremona in the Louvre. The plaques are found together with a fourth one as sides of an inkwell in Berlin, catalog Goldschmidt, no.251.