PRS_064 Mars assis, Luigi Valadier, 1780
Mars seated, bronze
In Italy from 1775 to 1778, Pierre-Marie-Gaspard Grimod (1748- 1809), born into a family of tax farmers and appointed Comte d'Orsay by Louis XV, gathered ancient Roman works, copies of ancient Roman and Greek originals, and works in the Mannerist style, also commissioning works from Neoclassical artists. This bronze, cast from the famous statue in the Ludovisi collection, bears testimony to the quality of these works, which he installed in a new decor "in the Greek style," no longer in existence, in his Paris residence..
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris
PRS_064 Mars assis, Luigi Valadier, 1780
Mars seated, bronze
In Italy from 1775 to 1778, Pierre-Marie-Gaspard Grimod (1748- 1809), born into a family of tax farmers and appointed Comte d'Orsay by Louis XV, gathered ancient Roman works, copies of ancient Roman and Greek originals, and works in the Mannerist style, also commissioning works from Neoclassical artists. This bronze, cast from the famous statue in the Ludovisi collection, bears testimony to the quality of these works, which he installed in a new decor "in the Greek style," no longer in existence, in his Paris residence..
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris