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AN ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURE OF PAOLINA BORGHESE
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AN ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURE OF PAOLINA BORGHESE

BY C. FOSSI, AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ROME, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé25 October 2007

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AN ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURE OF PAOLINA BORGHESE
BY C. FOSSI, AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ROME, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Signed C. Fossi Roma, on a parcel-gilt and grey-painted recamier with scrolled acanthus supports
Overall: 36¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high; 39¼ in. (99.5 cm.) wide (2)

Note du spécialiste

Carved after the original reclining figure by Antonio Canova (d.1822) in 1808, this celebrated portrait of Paolina Borghese was frequently reproduced in the 19th and early 2oth centuries. Originally titled 'Venus Venere Vincitrice' and modelled as the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte as Venus with the apple of Paris in her left hand, it was commissioned by her husband, the Prince Camillo Borghese and is now in the Museo Borghese, Rome.

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