Lot 267
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A LARGE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE, after the model in the Louvre, lacking head and arms, her drapery falling about her, on a rectangular base (the wings detached, some rust marks to back) 19th century

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A LARGE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE, after the model in the Louvre, lacking head and arms, her drapery falling about her, on a rectangular base (the wings detached, some rust marks to back) 19th century
50in. (127cm.) wide; 75in. (190.5cm.) high
Literature
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1982

Lot Essay

The Victory was discovered on the island of Samothrace in April 1863 by the French Consul at Adrianople, Charles Champoiseau. It was sent to Paris and was erected in the Louvre. Later excavations recovered other fragments of the figure, including the rostral pedestal

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