Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Two marble statues, with on the socles the names (in Greek) Aphrodite and Eros.

ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗ (Aphrodite) Aphrodite, Greek goddess of lover; her Roman counterpart is Venus (Wikipedia). The statue is a 17th century copy of the Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus, a Hellenistic marble sculpture. It is a 1st-century BCE marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Knidos, which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition (Wikipedia). The statue was bought in 1776.

ΕΡΩΣ (Eros) Greek god of sexual attraction; his Roman counterpart was Cupid (Wikipedia). The statue is clearly inspired by the Eros Farnese, a Pompeiian marble thought to be a copy of the colossal Eros of Thespiae by Praxiteles. This copy sculpted by Jonchery.

Information Sign

VENUS DE MEDICIS D'après l'antique XVIIe

JONCHERY eros ou l'amour XIXe

Sculptors

• Anonymous Roman or Greek sculptor from Antiquity
  
• Emile Jonchery, French sculptor.

Sources & Information

• Joconde, Portail des collections des musées de France, Accueil.
• Françoise Marengo, Château de Chantilly, les statues du parc. Bulletin Groupe d'étude des monuments et oeuvres d'art du Beauvaisis 140, 2009 (not available for me).

Tags

• Town: Chantilly
• Département: Oise
• Région: Picardie
• Country: France
• Antique Roman or Greek sculptor
• Eros
• Jonchery, Emile
• Venus

Location (N 49°11'46" - E 2°28'49")

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