Venus after the Bath
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
25.6 × 7 × 9 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop
Accession Number
1993.230
Tags
male
About this artwork
The statuette’s scale speaks to its likely place in private, intimate settings. The serpentine composition would have encouraged close examination from multiple angles. Compare the complexity of her pose to the relatively static Venus with a Burning Urn (1948.171).