Venus de' Medici
Italian or French School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
820 x 215 mm; 760 mm (Height); 180 mm (Width); 60 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485297
Summary
Bronze sculpture, Venus de' Medici, Italian or French School, 18th century. An Italian or French bronze reduction of the famous Antique statue of the Venus de' Medici, with one arm bent across breasts and standing on a bronze plinth, in the Uffizi, Florence; thought to be a first-century BC copy after a lost early third-century bronze of the school of Praxiteles.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
85 (painted in white on front of base)
Makers and roles
Italian or French School, 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, 88, fig. 173