Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

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Lot 499
  • 499

France, circa 1860

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Venus comforting Cupid
  • terracotta
  • height including gilt bronze circular base, 9 5/8 in.; 24.4 cm

Provenance

Heim Gallery, London

Exhibited

Washington, New York, Cambridge 1979-1982, no. 91 (illus.); New York 1981, no. 46

Catalogue Note

This terracotta was previously incorrectly identified with Dumont's model exhibited at the Salon of 1797 and the Exposition Centennale de 1900. However, Dumont's original sculpture was in fact sold in Paris from the collection of Hervé Chayette, Drouot , 24 April 1989, lot 131  and is now in a private collection in London.