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A young girl, known as 'The
European', Hadrianic; ca. 117 - 138 AD.
Encaustic on panel, with gold leaf, 24 x 42 cm (9 1/2 x 16 1/8 ").
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Antiquités Grecques et Romaines.
The peachy complexion that gave her her nickname is set of by her
enormous black eyes, which look away from the viewer. Her bib of gold
leaf is unique; X-rays show that her ochre and cyclamen clothes, held
by a large green brooch, continue under it. The artist seems to be
playing with rounded shapes - her oval head with its smoothly
combed-back hair, the convex hemispheres of her eyes and the tip of
her nose, the concave hemisphere over her upper lip, and the full
spheres of her pearl earrings and the gold ball-ended hairpin securing
her plait.
[picture 86 of the book]
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