Farnese Flora
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1729 - 1787
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
590 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732901
Summary
Painted black plaster sculpture, Farnese Flora by John Cheere (1709 – London 1787), signed Cheere. The original Roman marble statue after a Greek statue of Aphrodite of the fourth century BC was recorded by Aldrovandi in Rome in the courtyard the Palazzo Farnese. It was drawn by Marten van Heemskerck whilst he was in Rome between 1532/36. There was a terracotta copy made by Rysbrack for the Pantheon at Stourhead in Wiltshire between 1759 and 1762 now in the V&A, London. Zoffoli made a statuette after Pacetti's model of 1773 in the Ashmolean, Oxford.
Marks and inscriptions
Cheere (signed)
Makers and roles
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787), sculptor
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 41, fig. 113