Wall Painting Fragment with a Woman on a Balcony in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Wall Fragment with a Woman on a Balcony
Roman, 9 BC- 14 AD
Plaster and pigment

Inventory # 96.AG.172

A woman balances a pitcher on the rail of a balcony and sips from a cup. The subject is appropriate for a triclinium, the dining room of an ancient Roman home. The direction of the illusionistic shadows suggests that this fresco was painted on the right wall of the room as one entered.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.