After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822): A carved white marble figure of the Venus Italicaprobably late 19th/early 20th century
the classical goddess after the antique, clad in drapery with elaborate chignon and standing beside a casket on circular base, 80cm high approximatelyFootnotesOriginally commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from the great Italian neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova in 1802, the sculptor modelled two further variants which he completed in 1819. The work was to serve as a replacement for the Venus de Medici sculpture, a copy of an antique work by Cleomenes of Athens, which had been seized, taken to France and placed in the Louvre in 1802 by orders of Bonaparte. After Napoleon's abdication, the Venus de Medici was returned to Italy in 1815 and is now on display in the Room of Venus in the Galleria Palatina at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822): A carved white marble figure of the Venus Italicaprobably late 19th/early 20th century
the classical goddess after the antique, clad in drapery with elaborate chignon and standing beside a casket on circular base, 80cm high approximatelyFootnotesOriginally commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from the great Italian neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova in 1802, the sculptor modelled two further variants which he completed in 1819. The work was to serve as a replacement for the Venus de Medici sculpture, a copy of an antique work by Cleomenes of Athens, which had been seized, taken to France and placed in the Louvre in 1802 by orders of Bonaparte. After Napoleon's abdication, the Venus de Medici was returned to Italy in 1815 and is now on display in the Room of Venus in the Galleria Palatina at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
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