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Sculpture

La Baigneuse

Type
Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1875-1925
Accession number
78.20.55
Maker
Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Former
Simon-Louis Boizot(Opens in new tab) (French, 1743–1809)
After
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain(Opens in new tab) (French, 1710–1795)
Dimensions
29 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (75.6 x 26 x 25.1 cm.)
Medium
marble
Description
This sculpture depicts the full-length nude female figure of Venus, Roman goddess of love, towelling her legs with a furled cloth as she rests one foot on a small rock.
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green
Department
European Art
Find out more
View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
This sculpture is a later version, much reduced in size, of a monumental marble commissioned for the French royal court in 1751. It proved to be a popular design. Allegrain exhibited other versions of the sculpture into the 1760s, and innumerable copies in various sizes were produced both in bronze and marble well into the 19th century.

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