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Crouching Venus, neoclassical sculpture in Carrara marble, early 19th century.
An eighteenth-century English tourist in Florence wrote that of all the Venuses in the Uffizi, "only a graceful crouching Venus caught my fancy." Considered to represent the Goddess after birth or emerging from the bath, the Crouching Venus was a much-loved model by the Grand Tourists, whose demand for high-quality copies produced numerous variations on the theme. While the most famous copy remains the one made by Coysevox in 1686 for Versailles, most of those that have survived to this day were produced from the mid-19th century onwards, particularly by the workshops of Florence and Volterra. More rarely are models produced during the Neoclassicism, between the 18th anh 19th century, such as the one in question, of a rare refinement of execution, still entirely hand-crafted with the rasp and the hand-cranked drill, whose unmistakable mark can be seen among the locks of Venus' hair. This model comes from a Roman workshop. Excellent state of preservation.
Measurements
H cm 67
W cm 35
D cm 24
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