Nymph drying her hair

Louis Claude Vassé French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 549

Vassé's model for this figure was exhibited at the Salon of 1761. The wall fountain was completed between 1761 and 1763 at the behest of the Duc de Chevreuse for the entrance hall of his Château de Dampierre, where it remained until the early twentieth century.

Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris

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Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris
Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris
Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris
Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris
Nymph drying her hair, Louis Claude Vassé (French, Paris 1716–1772 Paris), Nymph: white marble: base, basin and console: gray-veined marble; serpents: bronze, with remains of gilding, French, Paris

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