Ron Liod Sauvage (19th Century), Large Bronze Sculpture "venus De Milo", Signed, 19th Century

Important bronze sculpture representing the Venus de Milo, signed on the side of the base Ron Sauvage. French work from the end of the 19th century. Ron Liod Sauvage, French sculptor active in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Aphrodite of Milo, better known as the Venus de Milo, is one of the most representative statues of the Greek Hellenistic period and one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Greece. Created between 130 and 100 BC, it represents Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty. In white marble, 211 cm high, the original statue was found in Milo, in the Cyclades, by a peasant, and sold to France between 1819 and 1829. It is currently kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The classical contrapposto gives a slight movement to the body, in studied harmony with the slight twisting of the torso and the flexion of a leg, adopting as a whole the serpentine form that specialists call "Praxitelian curve", which makes it one of the most remarkable representatives of Greek sculpture in its presuppositions of serene beauty. Bronze transfers into this material the textural contrast between the fine skin and the draped fabric, between the smooth flesh and the undulating folds.