Statue Girl with amphora, Bronze statue in Nosticova Street, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Girl with Amphora is a white marble sculpture of a slim, half-nude girl seated on a stone, holding an amphora on her right shoulder. It stands on a low sandstone block pedestal in Nosticova Garden near the Čertovka canal in Prague's Malá Strana. The work is in the Art Deco style and is managed by the Prague City Gallery.
The first version of the sculpture was made in plaster in 1938. Its author, the Prague academic sculptor Jaroslav Horejc (1886–1983), later also created a bronze version, and the marble form was made in 1956. The work was placed in Nosticova Garden in 1980 or 1983 and restored in 2002.
The sculpture is an art deco nude by Jaroslav Horejc (1886–1983), a Prague academic sculptor. It stands in Nosticova Garden near the Čertovka canal and is managed by the Prague City Gallery. The figure sits on a stone and holds the amphora on her right shoulder, atop a low sandstone block plinth.
The statue sits in Nosticova Garden near the Čertovka water channel on Malá Strana, below the garden's upper terraces. Access is on foot through the garden paths; the sandstone plinth stands at ground level beside the channel. The sculpture is managed by the Prague City Gallery.
The marble version visitors see today was carved in 1956, long after Jaroslav Horejc first modelled the figure in plaster in 1938; he also produced a bronze cast in between. The sculpture was placed in Nosticova zahrada only around 1980–1983 and was restored in 2002. It is managed by the Prague City Gallery.
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