Venus de' Medici
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Marble
Measurements
1600 x 440 x 440 mm
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766202
Summary
Marble sculpture on circular base shaped at front and square plinth with spreading sides, Venus de' Medici. She stands, left arm with fingers missing held in front, right arm lost, her head turned to her left, right leg bent, the left leaning against a stump. A dolphin, its head on the ground, rests its tail against the stump where it is held by a cupi, a secong sitting above the head fin.
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, no. 88