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This is a 200 BC - 150 AD marble in West building of the National Gallery of Art (Gallery 26). It is titled "Torso of Aphrodite," and is attributed to a Hellinistic or Roman School.
It was donated to the National Gallery of Art by Barbara Harrison Westcott in memory of Hon. Francis Burton Harrison (1873 - 1957). Harrison was a U.S. Congressman (New York), advisor to President Woodrow Wilson, and the U.S. Govenor General of the Phillipines from 1913 to 1921.
I call this digital photograph, taken in the summer of 2008:
(I mistakenly attributed this statue to the Roman province of Africa (modern day Tunisia) because it is next to a 200-225 AD floor mosaic that was was "given to the National Gallery of Art for the American People from the People of Tunisia." No specific location is given as the source for what I initially called the "Nymph of Tunisia.")
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