Venus after the Bath
cast possibly by the Workshop of Giambologna (Flemish, active Italy, 1529–1608)
c. 1600
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.6 x 7 x 9 cm (10 1/16 x 2 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, early 17th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The statuette’s scale speaks to its likely place in private, intimate settings. The serpentine composition would have encouraged close examination from multiple angles. Compare the complexity of her pose to the relatively static Venus with a Burning Urn (1948.171).
