AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF VENUS WITH AN APPLE
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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF VENUS WITH AN APPLE

LATE 19TH, AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (1770-1844)

已结束2012年11月20日

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF VENUS WITH AN APPLE
LATE 19TH, AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (1770-1844)
The nude goddess leaning against a drapery-covered tree-stump, on a circular base, on an associated marmo portoro socle
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high overall

Christie's, London, 31 October 1996, lot 379.

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Bertel Thorvaldsen (Swedish, 1770-1844) was widely considered the greatest neo-classical sculptor after Canova, Thorvaldsen's Venus was commissioned by the Russian Countess Irina Vorontsov as part of a series of gods and goddesses.
An original marble version of Venus with the Apple by Thorvaldsen is in the Louvre.