VENUS ITALICA

Name: AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ITALIAN SCHOOL (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Brand: VENUS ITALICA
Price: 8000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 10,000

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AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ITALIAN SCHOOL (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

VENUS ITALICA

Price Realised GBP 10,000

AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ITALIAN SCHOOL (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
VENUS ITALICA
Apparently unsigned, raised on a circular ormolu-mounted plinth, together with a modern resin fluted column
marble
The figure: 38 in. (97 cm.) high;
The column 46¹⁄₂ in. (118 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Canova was commissioned to execute the original version of the Venus Italica at the suggestion of Ludovico I, King of Etruria, as a replacement for the Antique statue of the Medici Venus, which had been plundered by the French in 1802. At first reluctant to accept the commission, the challenge to surpass one of the masterpieces of Antique sculpture soon took hold of Canova. Completed in 1812, the sculpture was placed in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Popular from the moment it was unveiled, the Venus was subsequently replicated by Canova and purchased by among others, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lucien, Prince of Canino and brother of Napoleon, and the Marquess of Londonderry.