Interesting, good quality 19th Century Grand Tour patinated bronze of Venus with the Apple after the original marble statue created by Bertel Thorvaldsen between 1813-1816 and now on permanent display in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. Based on the classical Greek myth of the golden apple thrown by the goddess Strife and the Judgement of Paris who chose Venus as the fairest goddess. The sculpture depicts Venus after the contest, with one hand she collects her clothes on the tree stump whilst with the other she holds the token of beauty up to her admiring gaze. Well modelled and cast with a beautiful even dark brown patination. Probably Italian based on the typically Neapolitan style base. Italy, circa 1860.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: eleg...