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Female Figure (Giambologna)
''Female Figure'' is a near life-size marble statue by the Flemish sculptor Giambologna. It measures 114.9 cm (45 1/4 in.)〔Fusco, 26〕 and depicts an unidentified woman who may be Bathsheba, Venus or another mythological person. The work dates from 1571–73, very early in the artist's career, and has been held by the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1982. The woman is nude save for a bracelet on her upper left arm and a discarded garment covering her lap. She sits on a column draped with cloths, holding a jar in one hand, drying her left foot with the other. According to the Getty, her complex positioning shows her "bathing in a graceful serpentine pose, characteristic of Mannerist elegance and known as figura serpentinata."〔"(Female Figure (possibly Venus, formerly titled Bathsheba) )". The J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved 11 October 2015〕 Other art historians have described the unusual position as evidencing an "anxious grace".〔Walsh; Gribbon, 187〕
The work's dating and attribution have been uncertain over the centuries, though it is now confidently associated with Giambologna due to its similarity to several other known works by him, including the ''Florence Triumphant over Pisa'' now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The statue has been restored twice and is in relatively good condition.
==Description==
The sculpture is carved from a single block of white Carrara marble – a rare medium for Giambologna.〔 The surface is highly finished and in good condition aside from some drill and rasp marks.〔Avery, 349〕 It depicts a nude young woman in the act of washing, seated in an awkward position on a truncated column. She is voluptuous and fleshy in the usual Mannerist way. She has a blank, inscrutable expression, and wavy, centrally-parted hair. Her straight nose reflects classical Roman sculpture. There is a bracelet on her left arm,〔Fogelman et al, 86〕 and a chemise or shift with embroidered cuffs is draped across her left thigh.〔Avery, 340〕 The woman's pose is complex, with her weight resting mostly on her left buttock, which is seated on a round column from which drapery hangs. According to art historian Peggy Fogelman, "With one leg and both arms positioned in front of her, the figure's weight and the compositional balance seem tilted forward".〔 Her left leg is raised; her knee sharply bent. The head is inclined downwards, and her eyes are blank. She holds an ointment jar in her left hand, raised high above her head. Her right hand holds a small cloth which she uses to clean her left foot.〔
Art historian Charles Avery estimates that given the somewhat awkward pose the statue was intended to be placed in a niche, as "the frontal view is curiously constricted and the most satisfactory one is diagonally from the left."〔Avery, 348-49〕 Avery describes the pose as "The impression is of a momentary action that has been frozen: the left arm and leg both project well forward, suspended freely in space, in an extraordinary pose that is the antithesis of the canonical Renaissance contrapposto".〔
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