Venus and the sphinx
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Venus and the sphinx
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Published 2019-09-13T12:16:50+00:00
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Like much of the sculpture of the Romantic movement in French art, Préault's (1809-1879) work was rejected from the Paris Salons throughout the 1830s and 1840s; his official recognition came after the Revolution of 1848. This plaster group is the working model for the commission of 1867 for the imperial palace at Fontainbleau and it shows Venus (the Roman godess of love beauty) sitting on a sphinx (a mythical creature, half woman, half lioness).
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| Date published | 13/09/2019 |
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| Title | Venus and the sphinx |
| Date | 1868 |
| Dimension | 108 × 114.3 × 60.3 cm |
| Accession | 1981.319.1 |
| Period | Romantic |
| Medium | Tinted plaster |
| Credit | Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, 1981 |
| Record | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/206896 |
| Artist | Auguste Préault |
| Place | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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