A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF THE CROUCHING VENUS, AFTER ANTOINE COYSEVOX
LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£6,300
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
dark brown/black patina, Venus depicting seated on a tortoise, mounted on a rectangular black marble base
Dimensions
Figure 21cm high, 25.5cm including base
Provenance
Alfred Spero Collection;
Acquired 1960.
Footnote
Literature:
Haskell and Penny, ‘Taste and the Antique; the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900', pp. 321-323;
‘The French Bronze 1500-1800’, [Exhibition M. Knoedler & Co.] New York, 1968.