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FRENCH SCHOOL CIRCA 1800 AFTER CHRISTOPHE GABRIEL ALLEGRAIN …
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FRENCH SCHOOL CIRCA 1800 AFTER CHRISTOPHE GABRIEL ALLEGRAIN …
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,500
Voluntary lot
Description
FRENCH SCHOOL CIRCA 1800 AFTER CHRISTOPHE GABRIEL ALLEGRAIN (1710-1795)
The Bather known as Venus emerging from the bath
Bronze statue with brown patina
Signed "G.C ALLEGRAIN.F " on the back of the terrace
(Accidents and restorations)
THE BATHER, AFTER CHRISTOPHE GABRIEL ALLEGRAIN, FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800
88 x 27 x 38 CM - 34,6 x 10,6 x 15 IN.
Related work
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, Baigneuse, dite aussi Vénus sortant du bain, 1767, marble, H.174 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, n°inv. M.R.1747.
King Louis XV commissioned Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain to create a Venus emerging from the bath in marble to decorate the Château de Choisy (now in the Musée du Louvre). The sketch was presented at the Salon of 1757. Critics then gave the marble a very favourable reception at the Salon of 1767, with Diderot saying of it "Belle, belle, sublime figure, they even say the most beautiful, the most perfect figure of a woman that moderns have made". The work was finally presented by the King to his favourite Madame du Barry in 1772 and placed in the grounds of the Château de Louveciennes.
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