Danaids2.0081_Descomps

Danaids2.0081_Descomps

Musée d'Orsay site
OGCMA s.v. "Danaids"

Joseph-Jules-Emmanuel Descomps, called Cormier (1869-1950), "Danaïde (with lyre)" (ca. 1926), statuette in senozoan stone, 69.8 x 47.6 x 25 cm.; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inventory number RF 3187. A nude female figure hovers over an abandoned lyre. — No amphora is apparent in the four angles imaged at the Orsay website. This conflicts with the site's statement of the alternate title for the sculpture: 'Femme à l'amphore." Note cross reference to Danaids1.0081_Descomps.

The image at right is derived from the Musée d'Orsay' site.

Terracotta sculpture of a graceful female figure bending forward, with a small lyre at the base, viewed from two angles

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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