Corcoran Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C. : [The Gallery] · leaf 138
96 CASTS FROM ANTIQUE SCULPTURE. The Venus of Capua in the Museo Bourbonico, Naples, is like the Venus of Melos in general form, but has the head bent down and the left arm and empty hand extended towards a Cupid, who, with his bow, stands before her. It is … in the air, and holding m its venus of melos. hand an apple, and the right arm was broken at its narrow part— a la saignee .” O’Shea also states that the forearm and hand holding the apple are in the store-room of the Louvre. This contemporary evidence seems to prove conclu¬ sively that the statue…
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