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Melusine
Melusine
Melusine
Melusine
Melusine
Melusine
Melusine

Image credit: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

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The sculpture consists of a young woman wearing a floral crown, with her left hand raised to her mouth and her right hand resting on a tree stump. It is inscribed with the monogram 'L. S.' on the base. It was carved for the marble bath of Schloss Hohenschwangau, Bavaria, a full-size plaster cast of which was held by the Schwanthaler Museum until the Second World War, during which it was lost or destroyed. There is a plaster maquette in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.

The artist was a leading neo-classicist of southern Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century. He produced a colossal statue of 'Bavaria' in Munich and polychrome caryatids for the Walhalla of the kings of Bavaria. This sculpture has been previously known as either 'Eve Listening to the Serpent' or 'Venus Listening' or 'Lady Godiva' but these seem to have been arbitrary renamings on the parts of Sir Merton Russell-Cotes, Richard Quick and Norman Silvester respectively.

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Bournemouth

Title

Melusine

Date

1841–1845

Medium

marble

Measurements

H 115.5 x W 44 x D 40.5 cm

Accession number

SC28 BORGM

Acquisition method

gift from Sir Merton Russell-Cotes, 1921

Work type

Statue

Signature/marks description

LS

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