Marble statue of a seated muse

Unknown

1st or 2nd century CE · Marble, Pentelic · Greek and Roman Art

Copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd century B.C. Seated on a rock, with her head resting on her right hand, this muse was probably part of a group of statues showing a musical contest between the boastful satyr Marsyas and the god Apollo. The statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st or 2nd century CE

Medium

Marble, Pentelic

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903