Description

FOLLOWER OF TOMMASO ‘DEL PORFIDO’ FEDELE
(C.1598-1658 ROME), SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Reclining Venus
porphyry; with a scallop shell to the naturalistic base, set within a later marble bow-ended base
5 7⁄8 in. (15 cm) high; 24. 3⁄8 in. (62 cm.) wide
Provenance

[By repute] purchased by Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway (1850-1934),
and thence by descent.
Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
R. Coppel Aréizaga, Museo del Prado Catálogo de la Scultura de Época Moderna, Madrid, 1998, nos. 39 and 40.
P. Malgouyres, ed., Porphyre: La Pierre Pourpre des Ptolomées aux Bonaparte, Musée du Louvre Paris, November 2003 – February 2004, pp. 106-109.
D. del Bufalo, Porphyry: Red Imperial Porphyry, Power and Religion, Turin, 2012, pp.48-49, 98-99 and 125, 134.