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Caricature of a overweight nude woman
Greek
Hellenistic period
about 300 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica ?, Athens ?
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.915
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionA caricature of an overweight nude woman with crude face and smile. Her arms are crossed and head is twisted as if in a dance--a parody of a courtesan Possible from Tanagra.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with E. P. Warren (according to his records: Bought in Athens); purchased by MFA, March 24, 1903