Woman Bathing, Touching her Foot

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1600
Accession number: 17.17
Makers: attributed to Barthélemy Prieur(Opens in new tab) (French, 1536–1611); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.)
Medium: bronze
Description: This sculpture portrays a nude female figure, seated upon the stump of a tree, which is covered with drapery.

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In the second half of the 16th century, Prieur worked as court sculptor to Duke Emanuel-Philibert of Savoy and to King Henry IV of France. In addition to the celebratory and monumental bronzes he produced for these important patrons, he created a number of small figures of men and women engaged in domestic and other informal activities. These intimate bronzes must have appealed to a wide range of collectors, who would have appreciated their tactile charm. This group (17.8, 17.15-17.20) is one of the finest and largest of Prieur's small bronzes, which Henry Huntington acquired in 1917 from the collection of J.P. Morgan.

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