Early 19th century FRENCH school after Christophe Gabriel AL - Lot 268

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Early 19th century FRENCH school after Christophe Gabriel AL - Lot 268
Early 19th century FRENCH school after Christophe Gabriel ALLEGRAIN (1710-1795) The Bather called Venus in the bath Bronze with brown patina shaded with red. Bears a signature on the reverse " C.C ALLEGRAIN. FECIT. / 1767". Wear to the patina. H. 85 cm RELATED WORKS: Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, Bather, also known as Venus, 1767, marble, H. 174 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, n°inv. M.R.1747. King Louis XV commissioned Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain to paint a marble Venus emerging from the bath to decorate the Château de Choisy, now in the Louvre. The sketch was presented at the Salon of 1757, the critics then welcomed the marble at the Salon of 1767, Diderot said about it "Beautiful, beautiful, sublime figure, they even say the most beautiful, the most perfect figure of a woman that moderns have made. The work was finally offered by the king to his favorite Madame du Barry in 1772 and placed in the park of the castle of Louveciennes.
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