This statue of a young woman has the same pose and costume as the well-known statues of korai found on the Athenian Akropolis. She stands with her left leg slightly advanced. Her left hand grasped a fold of her thin linen chiton, pulling it tightly across her legs; the right hand probably held out an offering. The short himation (cloak), which passes diagonally over her right shoulder and under her left arm, falls in vertical, stacked folds. This type of dress originated in the East Greek cities on the coast of Asia Minor. The variation in layers and texture animates the surface of the statue, which was once brightly painted.
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Title:Marble statue of a kore (maiden)
Period:Archaic
Date:late 6th century BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Marble, Island
Dimensions:H. 41 1/2 in. (105.4 cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:Gift of John Marshall, 1907
Accession Number:07.306
Said to have been found on Paros (Robinson 1908, p. 5)
Until 1907, collection of John Marshall; acquired in 1907, gift of John Marshall.
Robinson, Edward. 1908. "New Accessions in the Classical Department: I. Marbles." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3(1): pp. 4–5, fig. 4.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 206, fig. 123, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 239–40, fig. 165, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 239–40, fig. 165, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1950. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 3rd edn. pp. 94, 436, fig. 274, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 69, 210, pl. 50f, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 5, pp. 4–5, pl. 8, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Robertson, Martin and Cambridge University Press. 1975. A History of Greek Art, Vols. 1 and 2. p. 89, Cambridge, England.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. Greek Art of the Aegean Islands. no. 163, p. 205, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Howard Kathleen. 1994. Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide: Works of Art Selected by Philippe De Montebello. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 74, pp. 77, 420, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lazzarini, Lorenzo and Dr. Clemente Marconi. 2014. "A New Analysis of Major Greek Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum: Petrological and Stylistic." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 49: pp. 121–22, 130, 138–39, fig. 11.
Zanker, Paul. 2022. Afterlives : Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 9, pp. 44–45, New York: Scala Publishers.
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