Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain: Sculpture 'Bathing Venus', art casting
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Product information "Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain: Sculpture 'Bathing Venus', art casting"
Madame Dubarry, Pompadour's successor and favourite in the king's favour, requested and received the marble original of this masterpiece commissioned by Louis XV himself for her garden. Allegrain, then professor and later director of the Académie Royale, created it after years of intensive detailed studies on many models in a graceful late baroque pose with a first hint of incipient classicism. The critics struggled to find words for their enthusiasm, and in the Salon of 1767 Diderot celebrated the statue as 'the most beautiful and perfect female figure of modern times'. Original: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Marble. Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, 1767; polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand; height with plinth 67 cm.
| Artist: | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain |
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