AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), A LARGE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE DANCER', 19TH CENTURY
AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), A LARGE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE DANCER'
19TH CENTURY
Standing figure with head turned and hands on hips, on a circular base, now on a modern oval pedestal in the Canova workshop manner
Figure 152cm high, 68cm wide, 50cm deep, 233cm high overall
Provenance:
The Estate of Jasper Gibbons Grinling, late of The Old Vicarage, Helions Bumpstead, Essex
"The novelty of both the concept and the figure's action, the charm of life and the illusion of movement in this, the simplest of compositions, made all Paris run to it, as if to a new play. I doubt that in the theatre, the most celebrated dancer has ever gathered such a crowd of admirers and received such applause."
A critic writing at the time of the exhibition of the prime version of Canova's Dancer at the Paris Salon, 1812
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AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), A LARGE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE DANCER'
19TH CENTURY
Standing figure with head turned and hands on hips, on a circular base, now on a modern oval pedestal in the Canova workshop manner
Figure 152cm high, 68cm wide, 50cm deep, 233cm high overall
Provenance:
The Estate of Jasper Gibbons Grinling, late of The Old Vicarage, Helions Bumpstead, Essex
"The novelty of both the concept and the figure's action, the charm of life and the illusion of movement in this, the simplest of compositions, made all Paris run to it, as if to a new play. I doubt that in the theatre, the most celebrated dancer has ever gathered such a crowd of admirers and received such applause."
A critic writing at the time of the exhibition of the prime version of Canova's Dancer at the Paris Salon, 1812
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