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The sculpture depicts a nude female figure with one leg in front of the other, her toes pointed as if she is dipping her foot into water. She is leaning slightly forward and looking downwards. Her right hand holds a piece of cloth or drapery in front of her left thigh, and her left hand rests on a tree stump behind her. Her hair is styled up on top of her head, adorned with flowers and a thin headband or ribbon. The sculpture is crafted from smooth white material, and it stands on a round base.
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The sculpture depicts a nude female figure with one leg in front of the other, her toes pointed as if she is dipping her foot into water. She is leaning slightly forward and looking downwards. Her right hand holds a piece of cloth or drapery in front of her left thigh, and her left hand rests on a tree stump behind her. Her hair is styled up on top of her head, adorned with flowers and a thin headband or ribbon. The sculpture is crafted from smooth white material, and it stands on a round base.

National Gallery of Art · Sculpture

Bather or Nymph at the Bath

Workshop of Etienne-Maurice Falconet

Date
model 1757, carved mid-to-late 18th century
Medium
marble statuette
Dimensions
overall: 82 cm (32 5/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Accession number
2022.107.1
Credit line
Gift of David H. McDonnell
Time span
1751 to 1775
Department
CSD
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • full figure standing
  • figure
  • carved
  • classical
  • mythology
  • French Sculpture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Bather
  • Neoclassic
  • Nymph
  • Standing female nude
  • Full figure
Provenance

Raymond Barker family, formerly of Fairford Park, Gloucestershire; (Sotheby’s, Paris, 26 June 2019, no. 127); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift 2022 to NGA.

NGA object ID 222058. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.