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A late seventeenth-century cast, possibly cast by Richard Osgood or John van Nost the elder, after the antique. A nude female figure crouching and almost kneeling on her right knee, resting her left buttock on an overturned urn, her left arm crossed over her stomach and her right arm crossed in front of her breasts, her head turned to look over her right shoulder, and her hair coiled in a bun at the nape of her neck. She wears a bracelet on her upper left arm. The sculpture sits on a circular stone base which is then on top of a stone plinth. A bill for 'Statuary work' dated 6th September 1697, from the sculptor Richard Osgood, bills Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, 'for the case for the Venus and pedestal that went to Knowell', as well as 'for the Gladiator as agreed for, for a Large stone plinth and Shield with my Lords Arms'.
National Trust, Knole
Sevenoaks
Title
Crouching Venus
Date
c.1697
Medium
lead & stone
Measurements
H 110 x W 66 x D 46 cm
Accession number
130062
Work type
Statue
