RECENT ACQUISITIONS BY SAMUEL MERRIN AND THE MERRIN GALLERY, INC.

United States of America -- Free-Press-Release.com-- Jul 15, 2010 -- The Merrin Gallery, Inc is pleased to present a beautifully sculpted torso of Artemis clothed in a wind blown fabric which billows widely on each side.
An arrow scabbard adorns the right shoulder.
Roman, C. 2nd century AD
Height: 14 7/8 inches
Marble
Ex collection: Spink of London.
Mathias Komor in the 1950’s sold to Alan Brandt shortly thereafter who immediately presented it to his wife.
Priscilla Brandt and kept in their home in New York City until 1999.

The daughter of Leto and Zeus, and the twin of Apollo. Artemis is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility (she became a goddess of fertility and childbirth mainly in cities). She was often depicted with the crescent of the moon above her forehead and was sometimes identified with Selene (goddess of the moon). Artemis was one of the Olympians and a virgin goddess. Her main vocation was to roam mountain forests and uncultivated land with her nymphs in attendance hunting for lions, panthers, hinds and stags. Contradictory to the later, she helped in protecting and seeing to their well-being, also their safety and reproduction. She was armed with a bow and arrows which were made by Hephaestus and the Cyclopes.

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