A BRONZE GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID, cast from a model by Jean-Jacques Pradier, both shown nude, Venus with well modelled hair tied to the front and back, kneeling, holding Cupid's bow while Cupid leans against her knee and holds the arrow in his left hand, on an oval naturalistic base, signed Pradier Scpt E de Labroue Bronzier, the underside inscribed in ink 176:10, third quarter 19th Century

A BRONZE GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID, cast from a model by Jean-Jacques Pradier, both shown nude, Venus with well modelled hair tied to the front and back, kneeling, holding Cupid's bow while Cupid leans against her knee and holds the arrow in his left hand, on an oval naturalistic base, signed Pradier Scpt E de Labroue Bronzier, the underside inscribed in ink 176:10, third quarter 19th Century

细节

A BRONZE GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID, cast from a model by Jean-Jacques Pradier, both shown nude, Venus with well modelled hair tied to the front and back, kneeling, holding Cupid's bow while Cupid leans against her knee and holds the arrow in his left hand, on an oval naturalistic base, signed Pradier Scpt E de Labroue Bronzier, the underside inscribed in ink 176:10, third quarter 19th Century
10in. (25.5cm.) high

来源

Anonymous Sale in these Rooms, 4 November 1982, lot 72.

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève, Statués de Chair. Sculptures de James Pradier, Geneva, 1985, pp. 128-31.

拍品专文

In the present group, exhibited in plaster at the Salon of 1836, Pradier (d.1852) makes reference to the Antique and particularly, in the pose of Venus, to the figure of the Crouching Venus, an example of which is now in the Uffizi, Florence. Bronze reductions were cast by Quesnel in 1844 and by the present founder Labroue in or around 1856.