Venus Allegrain Bronze Statue madusa 8" to 1" (Imperial)

8" to 1" (Imperial)

from the collection of Lord Norton

By virtue of the authentic process mastered by our artisan

Housed in the Louvre Museum (Paris

of which his first is housed in the Thorvaldsen Museum

Venus Allegrain Bronze Statue madusa 8" to 1" (Imperial)Venus Allegrain in bronze, reproduction of the original in the Department of Sculptures in the Louvre, France, 17th and 18th centuries. This "beautiful, beautiful, sublime figure" captivated Diderot and his contemporaries. Instead of sculpting the idealized body of a goddess, Allegrain shows a woman in all her mortal realism. The fluidity of the contours, the feeling of fullness, the voluptuousness of her gesture, and the refinement of the hairstyle