"Venus au bain" and "Baigneuse", a patinated bronze pendant Paris, second half 19th century

each raised on stepped marble base respectively engraved to the front BAIGNEUSE PAR FALCONET and VENUS AU BAIN PAR ALLEGRAIN

Overall in good original condition with the usual wear to the patina in places especially to high reliefs of the composition and such consistent with handling, touching, and cleaning. Light scratches consistent with age. The original stepped marble bases have large chips and nicks to edges and corners.
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Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791); Gabriel Allegrain (1710-1795) was commissioned to carve the original version of this figure in 1755 by the Marquis de Marigny for the Château de Choisy-Le-Roi (Val-de-Marne). He exhibited a plaster version at the salon of 1757, and the marble version was completed and exhibited in 1767. The comtesse Du Barry purchased the marble for the park of the Château de Louveciennes in 1772 where it remained until 1793. The marble from which the present bronze is drawn is included in the Louvre inventory of 1824 and it is exhibited there today.