Marble Seated Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Marble statue of a seated woman
Roman, Early Imperial, 1st century AD
Roman version of a Greek statue type of the 3rd- 2nd century BC

Accession # 25.78.31

This figure, like the seated woman nearby (18.145.55), probably represents a nymph and was made to decorate a garden. The twisted pose with sharply projecting limbs tightly wrapped in layers of drapery is typical of much Hellenistic sculpture in which the rendering of finely differentiated, superimposed clothing, was an integral part of the design.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.