Venus de' Medici
Italian School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Marble sculpture on circular base shaped at front and square plinth with spreading sides
Measurements
1600 x 440 x 440 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766202.1
Summary
Marble sculpture on circular base shaped at front, Venus de' Medici, Italian School, 19th century. 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 cupid, a secong sitting above the head fin.
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist
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