A Marble Torso of Aphrodite or a Nymph, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd century A.D.

based on a Hellenistic original of the 2nd Century B.C., standing with the weight on her right leg and holding the folds of her himation on her hip with her right hand.

General Edouard Arsène Henri, marquis d'Aubigny (1832-1912), Château d'O, Mortrée, Normandy, acquired in North Africa in the 1880s during his military campaigns
by descent to the present owner

As shown in the catalogue---the back is in somewhat better condition than the front---there is a small drilled hole in the lower back.
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For other examples of this type see C.C. Vermeule and A.Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1990, no. 34, and S.F. Schröder, Katalog der antiken Skulpturen des Museo del Prado in Madrid, vol. 2, Mainz am Rhein, 2004, no. 150.

The original Hellenistic statue, which the present figure is replicating, has been variously interpreted as Aphrodite Euploia or Pontia, a nymph, or a dancer. Some of the most complete Roman versions show her leaning on an urn resting on a pillar or on the tail of a dolphin. For a list of nineteen known versions see J. Inan, "Aphrodite, Tänzerin or Wassernymphe," in Festschrift für N. Himmelmann, 1989, pp. 275 and 279, notes 14-33, with corrections and additions by D. Boschung and H. v. Hesberg, Die antiken Skulpturen in Newby Hall sowie in anderen Sammlungen in Yorkshire (Monumenta artis romanae, vol. 35), Wiesbaden, 2007, p. 43, note 3.