The Crouching Venus, Beautiful 19th Century Bronze

Venus with a Turtle, 19th Century Bronze
Neoclassical Bronze of the 19th Century,
The Crouching Venus with a Turtle.
Large neoclassical bronze representing the crouching Venus directly inspired by classical Greco-Roman antiquity.
Our Venus is entirely consistent with the classical Crouching Venus but ours is here represented with the turtle at her feet, this is a slightly less common model. The chiseling details are superb and very fine.
The original medal-colored patina is in perfect condition.

Our Venus rests on a stepped base in yellow sienna marble decorated with bronze egg stripes.
A few small chips at one of the marble corners, not serious.

A very beautiful bronze from the second half of the 19th century.

Dimensions:
25 cm by 15 cm at the base and 36 cm high.

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The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised in her bath. She is crouched, her right knee close to the ground, her head turned to the right, and in most versions she extends her right arm to cover her left shoulder. Judging by the number of examples excavated from Roman sites in Italy and France, this variant of Venus appears to have been popular.[1][2] The Lely Venus belonged to the painter Sir Peter Lely (Royal Collection, loan to the British Museum). Several examples of Crouching Venus preserved in important collections have influenced modern sculptors such as Giambologna[3] and were designed by artists such as Martin Heemskerck, who made a drawing of the Farnese Crouching Venus which is now in Naples.[4][5]
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