AFTER HUBERT GERHARD, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS
AFTER HUBERT GERHARD, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Depicted standing with one foot resting on a tortoise, her left arm raised and her right hand holding a conch shell; on an integrally cast bronze base and a later ebony veneered and brass-threaded square wood plinth.
Medium brown patina with lighter high points.
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Diemer, 'Small Bronzes by Hubert Gerhard: A Review of Recent Scholarship', in Small Bronzes of the Renaissance, D. Pincus ed., New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 194-209.

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Lot Essay

The present bronze figure, with its attenuated limbs and mannerist posture, is an important record in that it appears to document a lost bronze by Hubert Gerhard. Although the actual cast of this bronze is probably not contemporary with Gerhard himself, it records a composition which formed a pendant to a bronze Hebe by Gerhard which is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. For a discussion of Gerhard's small bronzes and an illustration of the Detroit Hebe, see Dorothea Diemer's article 'Small Bronzes by Hubert Gerhard: A Review of Recent Scholarship' (in Small Bronzes of the Renaissance, D. Pincus ed., New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 194-209).

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