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ANTIQUE JEAN- ANTOINE HOUDON SiGNED LARGE VENUS DE MILO MARBLE STATUE ON PLINTH
$34,019.55
£25,000
€29,216.36
CA$47,043.93
A$51,218.85
CHF 27,349.23
MX$618,291.71
NOK 343,828.79
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DKK 218,232.01
About the Item
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this really quite rare marble statue by the great Jean-Antoine Houdon of Venus De Milo on a later decorative plinth base
Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within the M25 only for the UK and local Europe only for international, if you would like an accurate quote please send me your postcode and I’ll provide you with the exact price
An absolutely stunning piece, the look on the face of the beautiful Venus is exquisite, so serene, the statue is signed to the rear on the base Houdon and features a winged cherub to the base riding a dolphin with a second cherub holding on to the tail
The plinth is later, I'm not sure what its made of but its not stone based on the weight, its more of a decorative piece and of course functional as it allows you to display the Houdon in style
Pillar dimensions:
Height 93cm (total height 188 cm)
Width 37cm
Depth 37cm
Statue dimensions:
Height 95cm
Width 30cm
Depth 30cm
Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point, if you would like any additional or specific measurements please ask.
Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects included Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-1809), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–1788), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton (1803–04), and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).
Houdon was born in Versailles, on 20 March 1741. In 1752, he entered the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, where he studied with René-Michel Slodtz, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.[3] From 1761 to 1764, he studied at the École royale des élèves protégés.
Houdon won the Prix de Rome in 1761, but was not greatly influenced by ancient and Renaissance art in Rome. His stay in the city is marked by two characteristic and important productions: the superb écorché (1767), an anatomical model which has served as a guide to all artists since his day, and the statue of Saint Bruno in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome. After four years in Italy, Houdon returned to Paris.
He submitted Morpheus to the Salon of 1771. He developed his practise of portrait busts. He became a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1771, and a professor in 1778. In 1778, he modeled Voltaire, producing a portrait bust with wig for the Comédie-Française; one for the Palace of Versailles, and one for Catherine the Great
In 1778, he joined the masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs, where he later met Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones. For Salon of 1781, he submitted a Diana which was refused without drapery.
Houdon's portrait sculpture of Washington was the result of a specific invitation by Benjamin Franklin to cross the Atlantic in 1785, specifically to visit Mount Vernon, so that Washington could model for him. Washington sat for wet clay life models and a plaster life mask. These models served for many commissions of Washington, including the standing figure commissioned by the Virginia General Assembly, for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Numerous variations of the Washington bust were produced, portraying him variously as a general in uniform, in the classical manner showing chest musculature, and as Roman Consul Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus clad in a toga.
In the 1780s, Houdon produced two semi-nude sculptures, Winter and Bather.
Perceived as bourgeois for his connections to the court of Louis XVI, he fell out of favour during the French Revolution, although he escaped imprisonment. Houdon returned to favor during the French Consulate and Empire, being taken on as one of the original artistic team for what became the Column of the Grande Armée at Wimille
He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, on 17 December 1804. He was created a Chevalier de l'Empire in 1809, which was made hereditary by letters patent in 1816. American Bank Note Co Issue of 1890 Houdon died in Paris on 15 July 1828, and was interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
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- Creator:Jean-Antoine Houdon (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 74.02 in (188 cm)Width: 14.57 in (37 cm)Depth: 14.57 in (37 cm)
- Style:Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:early 19th century
- Condition:Minor fading.
- Seller Location:West Sussex, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2823347655042
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