Sculpture Collection


Auguste Renoir (with Richard Guino)

Bust of Venus Victorious

 

French, 1841-1919
Bust of Venus Victorious
1915, cast in 1919
bronze
1973.7

22 3/4 x 19 x 14 inches

The terracotta original of this work was made by Renoir in 1915, with assistance by Richard Guino. This bronze, one of an edition of ten, was cast at the Valsuani foundry by the lost-wax (cireperdue) method, under the supervision of the artist’s grandson, Paul Renoir.

 - From the catalogue, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Editor Margy P. Sharpe, 1976.


 

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