Nymph - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.762 W 073° 57.762
18T E 587529 N 4514782
This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMPVV4
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2015
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Unfortunately this sculpture does not have a presence on the Museum's webpage. The sign accompanying the work at the Museum indicates that the marble wall fountain by Louis-Claude Vasse was completed between 1761 and 1763.
It depicts a nymph mostly nude seemingly washing her hair while leaning on a jar at her side.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"A nymph (Greek: ...nymphe) in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are beloved by many and dwell in mountainous regions and forests by lakes and streams. Although they would never die of old age nor illness, and could give birth to fully immortal children if mated to a god, they themselves were not necessarily immortal, and could be beholden to death in various forms. Charybdis and Scylla were once nymphs.
Other nymphs, always in the shape of young maidens, were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally the huntress Artemis. Nymphs were the frequent target of satyrs."