Summary

Photographed Canon EOS 450D. Deskewed and straightened with Darktable.

Compared to [1], the sun in this photo is at more of an angle, bringing out the features with deeper shadows. Also the sculpture may have been cleaned. National Library of Australia holds [2] a seemingly early photo by Frank Hurley.

Object

Phryne before Praxiteles
Artist	sculptor: creator_role QS:P,Q1281618 Percival Ball  (1845–1900)    Description British sculptor Date of birth/death 17 February 1845  4 April 1900  Location of birth/death London England Authority file : Q3375151 VIAF: 6663150749019816420008 Unknown authorUnknown author
Title	Phryne before Praxiteles label QS:Len,"Phryne before Praxiteles"
Object type	sculpture
Date	1900
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	height: 262 cm (103.1 in) ; width: 344 cm (11.2 ft)  dimensions QS:P2048,+262U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+344U174728
Collection	Art Gallery of New South Wales    Native name Art Gallery of New South Wales Location The Domain Coordinates 33° 52′ 07.32″ S, 151° 13′ 01.2″ E   Established 1880 / 1874  Website www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au Authority file : Q705551 VIAF: 127414571 ISNI: 0000000122486329 ULAN: 500267593 LCCN: n50061030 NLA: 36542103 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q705551
Accession number	3257 (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Object history	27 March 1903: unknown event: unveiling
References	https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/3257/ (English)

Photograph

Accessible description

A brown, rectangular bronze panel, cast with figures in relief, and recessed into the pink-tinged sandstone of the building's exterior. Left of centre stands a woman, facing to the viewer's right. Her left arm is extended, holding fabric away from her naked body. Her left arm, nearer to the viewer, is bent at the elbow with the hand near her neck. She is looking at a young man seated on a rock in the right of frame. He is looking at the woman and holding a stylus near a tablet which is propped upright on another rock in front of him. Behind him, at the right edge of the panel, stands a clothed person holding a statuette in one hand. Above the seated man in the background stand two other men, one bearded. Behind the standing nude, on the left of the panel, sits another woman semi-clad. In the background above the seated woman is a clothed, bearded man playing a pipe. Beneath the panel, bronze letters are mounted on the sandstone which say "Phryne before Praxiteles. Percival Ball sc. 1900."

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