The Capitoline Flora
Coade
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1769 - 1840
Materials
Coade stone
Measurements
1590 x 520 x 280 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266941
Summary
Coade stone, The Capitoline Flora classical woman standing on left leg, the right slightly bent, extending right hand as turns that way. Drapery falls over right shoulder and across over left arm and down in vertical folds. Flower circlet in swept back hair. Sandals on feet which protrude from beneath dress. On rectangular base with shaped corners. Left fingers missing. The original marble statue of 1.68 m is in the Capitoline Museum, Rome and has been since 1744, although it was ceded to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino and went to Paris in 1798 but removed in 1815 and arrived back in Rome in early 1816, also known as Sabina, Polyhymnia.
Makers and roles
Coade, 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, 40