Venus Anadyomene: C.3189-1928

Titles

Venus Anadyomene

Maker(s)

Maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Hard-paste porcelain

Description

Venus standing on a rocky base beside a dolphin, hard-paste porcelain, enamelled and gilt

Greyish hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in two shades of green, pale orange, pink, brown, and grey enamels and gilt. Venus stands on a rocky base, a dolphin and weeds on her left acting as a support. She is naked apart from two armbands, one on each arm, and a head band.

Notes

History note: Frank Stoner, London from whom purchased for £40 on 23 July 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Ludwigsburg ⪼ Württemberg ⪼ Germany

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
Production date: circa AD 1765

Note

This figure was derived from the antique marble Venus de' Medici in the Uffizzi in Florence, which was probably the best-known and most copied classical marble after the Apollo Belvedere. It modelled by Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer (1725-1806) who was the chief modeller at the factory between 1759 and 1767, who had studied in Rome and was also influenced by the neoclassical theories of Winckelmann. The delicate colouring, which flatters the greyish Ludwigsburg paste, retains a faintly rococo character. The slender proportions of the figure may indicate that its immediate source was one of the many reduced-size bronzes, for example by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi, several of which were in German collections.

School or Style

Neoclassical