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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![her left was held before her in a gesture of modesty; by her left side stands her son Eros, a winged child leaning back against a myrtle-tree, who in his left hand holds a lighted torch over a low altar, and with his right reaches up to offer his mother the golden apple, the prize of beauty; the type originated in the 3rd Cent. B.c., and represents a development of the motive of the famous Cnidian Aphrodite of Prazxiteles ; the marble is Pentelic of a mellow tone, the execution both vigorous and pleasing [Pl. VV] THE PROPERTY OF Sir Cecil tbharcourteSmith, Rt., c.v.o. pV catalogue of that exhibition. THE ELDER (8.0. 14-4.D. 33), the wife of Germanicus, grand- daughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula. By comparison with the coin struck by Caligula in her memory, and with a small bust in root of emerald in the B.M. (see “ Burlington Magazine,” 1907, p. 99), the identification is established beyond a doubt. In the historic interest of the character represented, and in its delicate, yet spirited modelling, which triumphs over the extreme hardness of the material, this bust may claim to be the most beautiful example which has come down to us of Roman portraiture from its best period, 114 n. high; the nose and a small portion of the lips restored. (For an account of Agrippina and her portraits, see “ Burlington Magazine,” wbid. ; the description of her there quoted from Tacitus, though erudging and inadequate, is well borne out by this bust: “TIngens animi et quae virilibus curis feminarum vitia exuerat”) [Pl. VII and VII]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3164904x_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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