Roman fragmentary torso of Venus , Roman, c.2nd century AD
Marble
Height: 11.5cm
12078
£ 16,000
Carved from fine grained white marble, the subtly modelled nude goddess stands contrapposto with her weight on her right leg. Broken above the navel and across the bottom of the thighs.
Provenance
Jean Pozzi (1885-1967), Paris, FranceHis sale: Hotel Drouot, 16th-17th November 1970, lot 166
Jean Pozzi was a French plenipotentiary Minister in Iran in 1935 and in Egypt from 1939-1942. Over nearly six decades, Pozzi amassed a collection of over 3,500 art objects in his Paris apartment, ranging from textiles, carpets, and manuscripts to album folios, ceramics, and tiles from Islamic regions and beyond.
First son of Samuel-Jean Pozzi (1846-1918) a French surgeon, gynecologist, anthropologist and patron of the arts. Samuel-Jean's sexual escapades were almost as renowned as his groundbreaking contributions to gynecology. His distinctive charm was perfectly embodied by John Singer Sargent’s full-length portrait, of him in 1881 entitled Dr. Pozzi at Home, which captured his distinctive charm.
Literature
This fragment comes from a scaled down version of the Knidian type. For a life-size example see Cornelius C. Vermeule and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1990), p.52, no.35Publications
Hotel Drouot, Collection Jean Pozzi, Antiques, 16th-17th November 1970, lot 166
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