Antique French Bronze Venus de Milo

French patinated bronze reduction of the Venus de Milo, after the antique, by the Barbedienne foundry. The figure reproduces the celebrated ancient Greek marble discovered on the island of Melos and now held in the Louvre.

Cast with a warm brown patina and inscribed “F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR” along the base. Ferdinand Barbedienne was one of France’s leading 19th-century bronze founders, known for producing finely cast reductions of important classical sculpture.