Amphitrite After Michel Anguier (1612-1686) And Nicolas Massé - 18th Century - Height. 103 Cm.

After Michel Anguier (1612-1686)
Amphitrite
Carrara marble sculpture, wear to the face and left forearm.
18th century.
The model of our sculpture comes from a work from the “suite des dieux et déesses”, small bronzes created by Michel Anguier in 1652.
A marble copy was then executed by Nicolas Massé and delivered to the Château de Versailles on August 27, 1684. Placed in the Bosquet de la Renommée, later known as the Bosquet des Dômes, in the château's park. An inventory of 1707 describes it as “a white marble statue, standing, representing Amphitrite, naked, her hair falling over her right shoulder and girded with a ribbon that passes through the middle of her forehead; she has her right arm lowered, holding a piece of drapery that passes behind her, and her left arm half raised, holding in her hand a crayfish that she is looking at; at her feet is a dolphin's head, almost covered by the drapery. Cette figure est de cinq pieds onze pouces, faitte par Anguieres”.
By order of King Louis-Philippe, it was placed in 1844 in the Horseshoe Basin of the Château de Saint-Cloud park. It entered the Louvre on February 12, 1872 and was deposited at Versailles on February 24, 1998.
A copy by Jacques Bourdet can now be seen in the bosquet des dômes.
Dimensions : 103 x 31 x 22 cm.