Ca. 1-200 AD. A cast bronze statuette of goddess Venus standing with her weight on her right leg, the left leg bent at the knee and slightly advanced, leaning into her right hip, her slender torso nude; her both arms bent; her head turned to her right, her gaze slightly downturned; her hair arranged in an intricate coiffure and topped with a stephane. Venus was the god of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. She was an especially important god for the Romans as she was also the mother of Aeneas, their mythical ancestor. For a comparable example, see The Walters Art Museum, Accession Number: 54.949.Size: L:65.7mm / W:33.9mm ; 48.83gProvenance: Private London collector, acquired on the Austrian Art market; formerly in an old USA collection, formed since the 1970s.