AFTER THE ANTIQUE: A MARBLE BUST OF THE MEDICI VENUS, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURYwith typically arranged hair, her head turned to sinister, the back of the bust rusticated, later mounted on a marble cylindrical socle,the bust 25cm high, 34cm high overallTheMedici Venus was a Roman copy of a Greek sculptureby Cleomenes of Athens, the sculpture was famous throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th century, when it was seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre.