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Visible reflectance photograph Fragment of a relief drawn with black chalk with a female figure in profile view from an Isis procession arrow left swipe to the left arrow right swipe to the right
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Fragment of a relief with a female figure in an Isis procession

Fractures in the block of marble and such details as the missing forearm indicate that this is a reproduction of an ancient fragment. The drawing does not embellish or idealize, but rather emphasizes the flawed state of the original. At the time the drawing was made, the marble relief on which it is modelled had already been restored. Why, then, did the draughtsman pointedly choose to reproduce an earlier, damaged state?

Artwork information

  • Artist

    Unidentified pupil of Piranesi’s studio, Group 9

  • Place and date

    Rome, second half of the 1760s, certainly before 1778

  • Dimensions (sheet)

    248 x 156 mm

  • Inventory number

    IX 5159-36-8-7

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