AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A LARGE CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE MEDICI VENUS' PROBABLY ITALIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURYDepicted in the act of rising from the sea, Cupid riding dolphin by her sideapproximately 162cm high, 48.5cm wide, 51cm deepWhilst the exact date of the discovery of the figure of the Venus de' Medici upon which this is based is unknown. It first appeared in the 1638 catalogue of works held in the Villa Medici collection in Rome. The original marble figure is thought to be a 1st century copy after an earlier Greek bronze figure. The dolphin to the side providing a support which the bronze would not have needed or had. After a brief Napoleonic interlude in Paris, it is now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.Literature; F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 325-329, No.88.
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A LARGE CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE MEDICI VENUS' PROBABLY ITALIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURYDepicted in the act of rising from the sea, Cupid riding dolphin by her sideapproximately 162cm high, 48.5cm wide, 51cm deepWhilst the exact date of the discovery of the figure of the Venus de' Medici upon which this is based is unknown. It first appeared in the 1638 catalogue of works held in the Villa Medici collection in Rome. The original marble figure is thought to be a 1st century copy after an earlier Greek bronze figure. The dolphin to the side providing a support which the bronze would not have needed or had. After a brief Napoleonic interlude in Paris, it is now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.Literature; F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 325-329, No.88.
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