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Venus of the Doves
Étienne Maurice Falconet1716/1791
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Venus of the Doves
- Creator: Etienne-Maurice Falconet
- Date Created: 1716/1791
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 75.1 x 71.3 x 45.7 cm (29 9/16 x 28 1/16 x 18 in.) gross weight: 372 lb. (168.738 kg)
- Provenance: M. de Périgny;[1] (sale, Paris, 6-7 April 1841, no. 119, as by Bouchardon). Duc de Cambacerès, Paris. (Wildenstein & Co., New York); acquired 1946 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA. [1] The names of Comte de Parabère and Comte de Trudaine were included in the provenance provided by Wildenstein but, according to Ulrich Middeldorf, _Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century_, 1976, p. 109, neither they nor the Duc de Cambacerès could be further identified.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: marble
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