Aphrodite of Arles
This is possibly a Roman copy of a Greek prototype. It has been suggested however, that it is an original creation of the first century BCE from Athens, influenced by Praxiteles.
In the original in Paris she holds an apple in her right hand and a mirror in her left, a reference to the judgement of Paris myth. However the arms are restorations
Paris, Louvre 439
Purchased in 1884 from the Louvre, Paris
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 237 (n.2), pl. 83.2
Rizzo: Prassitele , 24
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 107, no.559
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), 267, fig.685
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 894, no.498
Ridgway: American Journal of Archaeology 80.2 (Spring 1976), 147
Discovered broken into three parts in 1651 at Arles in southern France