Abstract
The Lady of Auxerre is a 75 cm high limestone statuette of a sculpted woman. The state of conservation is good except for the left half of the face and the arm, which was restored later on. There are red traces of painting on the breasts; She stands on a base 10 cm high in a very straight posture without movement.
She is dressed in a kind of shawl which covers shoulders – it can also be a flap of the tunic – and a broad belt, probably metallic. The breasts are well shaped over the high and slim waist and the formless skirt covered with incised scale or feather patterns defining areas of colors. The right hand is placed across across the breasts and the left one, which is long-fingered, is pressed to her side. She's wearing bracelets on her wrist. The feet are big and lumpy. The face is rather triangular with a light smile (characteristic of all the work from the same period), rounding in the chin, rather flat-topped and the forehead defined by a straight row of curls. The hair is dressed in vertical locks with knob terminals, but also with horizontally ranged crimps.
