A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE PLASTER MODEL OF PALLAS VELLETRI MODERN, AFTER THE ANTIQUE The goddess portrayed fully draped and with coiled necklace, partial cast lacking arms and head275cm high Catalogue Note: Likely derived from a cast acquired at Sotheby's New York, Historic Casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28 February 2006, lot 139 'an over life size classical statue of Athena'. The circa 1st AD Roman marble original, in turn a copy after a Greek bronze prototype, was unearthed in 1797 and has been on display at the Louvre, Paris, since 1803. Plaster casts of the statue were made soon after its discovery, some are noted in F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale University Press, first published 1981, pp. 284-5
A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE PLASTER MODEL OF PALLAS VELLETRI MODERN, AFTER THE ANTIQUE The goddess portrayed fully draped and with coiled necklace, partial cast lacking arms and head275cm high Catalogue Note: Likely derived from a cast acquired at Sotheby's New York, Historic Casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28 February 2006, lot 139 'an over life size classical statue of Athena'. The circa 1st AD Roman marble original, in turn a copy after a Greek bronze prototype, was unearthed in 1797 and has been on display at the Louvre, Paris, since 1803. Plaster casts of the statue were made soon after its discovery, some are noted in F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale University Press, first published 1981, pp. 284-5
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