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HEAD OF THE GODDESS VENUS OF THE ‘MEDICIS’ TYPE.
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HEAD OF THE GODDESS VENUS OF THE ‘MEDICIS’ TYPE.
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
HEAD OF THE GODDESS VENUS OF THE ‘MEDICIS’ TYPE. It is tilted slightly to the left. Her abundant, wavy hair is held back by a headband. The back of the occiput was hollowed out at a later date where the bun would have been, to accommodate a fixing tenon.
White marble.
Deep beige discolouration and limestone deposits. Losses and chips. Traces of cleaning and later repairs.
Roman art, circa the 2nd century. Height 32 cm.
Provenance: Collection of Louis Arride (1936–2026), a painter of the Toulon School, discovered by his father before 1939 in a terraced garden on his property in Toulon, where it had been used as a reused stone
Expert: Antoine Tarantino
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