AT-00016754
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Nymph drying her hair
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris)
- Date
- 1761–63
- Medium
- Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding
- Dimensions
- Height (overall): 8 ft. 6 1/2 in. (260.4 cm); Height (figure): 59 in. (149.9 cm); Height (console): 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm); Height (basin): 71 1/4 in. (181 cm)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Rogers Fund, 1971
- Accession no.
- 1971.205
Provenance
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