Italy Renaissance Venus Bronze Marble Statuette Napoleon III Period 19th Century Grand Tour

After an Italian Renaissance model Venus emerging from the bath Bronze with brown patina, cherry red marble base Work from the Napoleon III period from the end of the 19th century H. 16 cm The Venus is represented in bronze in an important contraposto. The statuette is made to be seen from all angles. It rests on a Morello red marble base which was very successful in the second half of the 19th century. A souvenir of the Grand Tour Typical of the productions linked to the Grand Tour, this statuette by its size, its style and its antique model was part of the souvenirs that the aristocrats and bourgeois brought back to their country in memory of this initiatory journey with the aim of acquire a classical culture.