Statue
- Title:
- Hebe
- Object Name:
- Statue
- Object ID:
- 1931.002.08
- Creator:
- Garella, Antonio (1864-1919)
Sculptor - Place of Origin:
- Florence, Italy
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Statuette, Hebe, marble. Half life-size statuette of a woman, standing on an integral circular base, 8 3/8" in diameter and 2" high. Head turned down and toward subject's left; pupils and iris of eyes not defined; hair bound with fillets and gathered at back into a loose chignon, below which are three spiral curls. Wearing a double girded chiton with opening down side, over which is a modified peplos fastened at shoulders with fibulae and having tasseled corners; bare feet. Subject's left arm and leg bent at elbow and knee respectively. Holds out in left hand a hemispherical cup or bowl with anthemion decoration on exterior; holds a jug at side in right hand. Inscribed on top of base at left side: "A Garella", in script. Small chips at bottom edge of base. See Accession File for biographical information re: sculptor, known to have been working between 1894-1912.
- Material:
- Stone
- Dimensions:
- H-32.125 W-11.375 Dia-10 inches
- Provenance:
- Probably part of the furnishings acquired for the house at 85 Center Street, Concord, NH, which the Albin family had occupied since c. 1890.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Ella Albin
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