Marble statue of a seated muse

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

Copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd century B.C.

Seated on a rock, with her head resting on her right hand, this muse was probably part of a group of statues showing a musical contest between the boastful satyr Marsyas and the god Apollo. The statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century.

Marble statue of a seated muse, Marble, Pentelic, Roman

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