""Venus"" (Seated Woman)

after 1769

30 cm 30.5 cm 23.8 cm

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In 1775 Tassaert relocated from Paris to Berlin to become court sculptor to Frederick the Great of Prussia. The Antwerp-born sculptor had previously spent about 30 years in Paris establishing his career. This small, finely modeled marble sculpture, likely depicting the goddess...

Sculpture

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17652
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sculpture
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provenance
Seligmann, Rey & Gruel [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see album of Seligmann]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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6
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