Cella has dated this piece to the 1880s.
Celebrated in antiquity the Roman author Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, describes a statue of Venus washing herself, made by Doidalses and placed in one of the temples of the Portico d’Ottavia in Rome. A model for artists of the Renaissance, this iconographic image has been revisited many times with small variations throughout history, similar versions can be seen in the Louvre, Paris; the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome; the Uffizi, Florence; the Vatican Museums, and the Royal Collection. This version most closely resembles the marble in the Vatican Museums, which was excavated at Salone in the eighteenth century (and engraved soon after by Francesco Piranesi). Presented on a stepped Marmo Rosso Levanto and Belgian Black marble base typical of souvenirs produced in Rome during the 19th century for the Grand Tour. After the antique, Italian, Rome, circa 1880.
Cella has dated this piece to the 1880s.
Specialists in the grand tour and french decorative objects, clocks and furniture, circa 1780-1880.
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Grand Tour Bronze of the Crouching Venus
