Venus

Portrait head of a priest, Egyptian, Late Period, 30th Dynasty. Hard black stone. H 7.8 cm. © Galerie Günter Puhze GMBH. Provenance: private collection of Dr. H. B., Germany, acquired in 1998 from Galerie Günter Puhze, private collection, The Netherlands; private collection, England. Statuette of Venus, Roman, 2nd century AD. Bronze. H 20 cm. © Galerie Günter Puhze GMBH. Provenance: collection of Louis de Clercq (1836-1901), France. Literature: A. de Ridder, Catalogue Collection de Clercq, Tome III, Les Bronzes, Paris, 1904,... [Lire la suite]

Figure of the nude Venus, Ancient Roman, 1st century BC-1st century AD. Bronze with green patina with extensive patches of red. H 20 cm. © Finch & Co. Provenance: private collection, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1989, lot n° 204. Figure of a dolphin, Trapani, Italy, late 17th-early 18th century. Carved red coral. H 3.5 cm. © Finch & Co. Provenance: private collection, Europe, acquired in London early 1970s. Equestrian deified ancestor figure, Kafiristan, North Eastern Afghanistan,... [Lire la suite]

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553), Venus and Cupid, 1529. Oil on wood, 38.1 × 23.5 cm. Signed. A gift from the Drue Heinz Charitable Trust, 2018, IV: NG6680. The National Gallery © 2019 LONDON.- Visitors to the National Gallery are now able to view a new acquisition by one of the Renaissance’s most significant figures. Venus and Cupid (1529) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), one of the leading German painters of the early 16th century, is being displayed in Room 4 and is... [Lire la suite]

Lot 18. Giovanni Bilivert (Florence, 1585 - 1644), Venus, Cupid and Pan, inscribed on the reverse in an old hand, possibly by the artist himself: originale di Giovanni Biliverti/ Fiorentino, oil on copper, 18 by 13 in.; 45.7 by 33 cm. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD. Lot sold 879,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: Private U.K. collection, since at least circa 1900;By whom anonymously sold ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2012, lot... [Lire la suite]

Fountain Figure of a Centaur with a Boar, First half of first century CE. White marble with blue veins. From Villa A, rooms 31, 21, 44, peristyle 32, portico 33. NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art announces that it will host the travelling exhibition, Leisure & Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii from February 3 through August 13, 2017.  Featuring works seen for the first time outside Italy, this groundbreaking exhibition centers on the ancient town of Oplontis on the... [Lire la suite]

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Self-portrait, wearing a Feathered Bonnet, 1635, National Trust, Buckland Abbey, gift from the estate of Edna, Lady Samuel of Wych Cross. © National Trust/Chris Titmus. LONDON.- Am I Rembrandt? (8 Nov – 5 March 2017), the final display in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Making Discoveries series brings the Dutch Master’s flamboyant Self-Portrait, Wearing a Feathered Bonnet, 1635, (on loan from Buckland Abbey, National Trust) to London for the first time. The display also delves deeper into the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5. A Roman marble Venus, circa 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.. Estimate $300,000 – $500,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016. Lifesized, the voluptuous goddess depicted nude, standing with her left leg slightly advanced, her torso leaning forward causing a crease across her abdomen, both arms lowered, with a diaphanous mantle draped diagonally across her legs and over the crook of her right arm, with folds cascading down her upper right thigh; 35 ½ in. (90.2 cm.) high Provenance: Private Collection,... [Lire la suite]

Venus and Mars, Circle of Tiziano Aspetti (1559-1606), Italian, Venice or Padua, late 16th-17th century. Photo Sotheby's. with metal tags numbered: 531 and 532 and an old paper label on the underside of the base numbered 531 and 532; bronze, on ebonised wood bases with bronze herm mounts and inlaid with lapis lazuli. Venus: 12.5cm., 4 7/8 in.; Mars: 13cm., 5 1/8 in.; bases: 11.5cm., 4½in. Estimation 4,000 — 6,000 GBP Provenance: SAR la Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte de Luxembourg (1927 - 2005) Sotheby's. Of Royal and Noble... [Lire la suite]

  Italian or French, Circa 1700, Cameo with the bath of Venus. Photo courtesy Sotheby's monogrammed: I.R.F.;agate, mounted in a gold brooch; 53 by 37mm., 2 1/16  by 1½in. overall. Estimation 20,000 — 30,000 USD This exquisitely carved cameo represents Venus bathing, aided by an attendant Cupid. The calm of this idealised scene is, however, broken by the voyeuristic presence of a lascivious satyr and another Bacchic figure. Such a juxtaposition is typical of late 17th- and early... [Lire la suite]

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), Venus, 1531. Oil on panel, 38.7 x 24.5 cm. Colnaghi LONDON - Colnaghi, the venerable firm of dealers in Old Master paintings and drawings located at 15 Old Bond Street, London W1, has sold a recently rediscovered and highly important Venus by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), one of the most iconic images by the artist, only to be compared with the Venus in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, which it predates by one year.  It has been sold to the Princely Collections of... [Lire la suite]