Subject
Wall painting with a standing female figure, dressed in a violet tunic, yellowish cape and green shoes, on a white background. In particular, the tunic is embellished with representations of winged figures.
Accession number P 48
Fresco painting
Height 39 cm; width 19.9 cm; depth 3.6 cm
Complete, with cracks
100/150 A.D.
Provenance
Found on the ancient Via Appia (it seems to come from a tomb near the sepulchre of Cecilia Metella)
Placement
Musée du Louvre
Credits
Musée du Louvre
References
B. Pichon (curated by), Animi et corpora. L’antiquité au féminin, Musée d’archéologie et du patrimoine/ Fondation Marius Vazeilles, 2023, pp. 31, 90, ill. 9.
F. Gaultier – L. Haumesser – A. Trofimova (curated by), Un rêve d’Italie. La collection du marquis Campana, Paris, Lienart/Musée du Louvre, 2018, p. 62, n. 23.
V. Tran Tam Tinh, Catalogue des peintures romaines (Latium et Campanie) du Musée du Louvre, Paris, Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1974, p. 70, fig. 55, n. 48.
