Statuette of a Seated Girl

Museum collection

Museum work by Ancient Greek

Art Institute of Chicago

Thread 55376

Protection & Stability

Where the original lives

Art Institute of Chicago

The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago and is not for sale. This piece is shown for reference — no edition of it is offered.

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Curator’s note

Ancient Greek (330-320 BCE) from Athens. Held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and released into the public domain, offered here as a museum-quality edition within the protection thread.

Details

Artist: Greek; Athens
Date: 330-320 BCE
Medium: terracotta
Dimensions: 10.5 × 5.2 × 6.2 cm · 4.1 × 2.0 in
Origin: Athens
Collection: Museum Purchase Fund

Placing a protection & stability work

Mountains, old trees, elephants, thresholds and guardian figures — the vocabulary of protection is ancient and remarkably consistent across cultures. What these works share is mass low in the frame. They make a wall feel like a wall, which is why they are hung near doors and in the rooms of children and elders.

Direction: South-west — the quarter of ground and permanence
Rooms: Entrances · Children's rooms · Family rooms · Stairwells

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Provenance & rights

Source collection: Art Institute of Chicago. Museum Purchase Fund. Public domain (CC0). Shown here for reference, with full attribution to the artist and holding institution. No edition of this work is offered.