Early 19th Crouching Venus Neoclassical Marble Sculpture

Crouching Venus, neoclassical sculpture in Carrara marble, early 19th century.
An eighteenth-century English tourist in Florence wrote that of all the Venuses in the Uffizi, “only a graceful Crouching Venus caught my fancy.” Seen as representing the Goddess after birth or emerging from the bath, the Crouching Venus was a favorite model of the Grand Tourists, whose demand for high-quality copies produced numerous variations on the theme. While the most famous copy remains the one made by Coysevox in 1686 for Versailles, most of those that have survived to this day were produced from the mid-19th century onwards, particularly by workshops in Florence and Volterra. More rarely, one encounters models produced during the Neoclassicism, between the 18th and 19th centuries, like the one in question, of a rare refinement of execution, still entirely hand-worked with the rasp and the crank drill, whose unmistakable sign can be seen among the locks of hair of the Venus. This model comes from a Roman workshop. Excellent state of preservation.

Measurements
H cm 67
W cm 35
D cm 24