Juno
Maker
Agostino Testa
(Italian, 1662 - 1735)
Collections
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Datelate 17th Century
Mediumlimestone
Dimensions79 × 30 × 22 in. (200.7 × 76.2 × 55.9 cm.)
base: 18 × 27 × 27 in. (45.7 × 68.6 × 68.6 cm.)
overall: 97 × 30 × 27 in. (246.4 × 76.2 × 68.6 cm.)
DescriptionThe figure is described in the 1918 sale catalogue from the American Art Association as a "standing figure of a woman in armor. She has long flowing hair and wears a plumed helmet, a cuirass and greaves, rests her right hand upon a quiver of arrows, and holds her left arm akimbo. Tree trunk support, at the base of which stands a peacock. On rectangular base and original incurved Pedestal."
Juno, the wife of Zeus, rests her left arm on her hip while she grasps a quiver of arrows in her right hand. She is represented with a peacock, one of her emblems, behind her left foot. Juno is often depicted, as in The Huntington statue, in a warrior-like guise, as the defender of injustices.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On viewObject number20.44
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.7
