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Crouching Venus and The knife-grinder
(1740-1745)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
(1) 20.2 × 17.8 × 14.7 cm (Venus)
(2) 22.3 × 15.2 × 13.4 cm (knife-grinder)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Mr Peter Wynne Morris, Governor, 1997
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Chantilly, Oise, France
Accession Number
1997.325.1-2
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Crouching Venus (venus accroupie):
White, glazed figure of a woman kneeling on one knee, head and torso twisting anticlockwise, with her right hand holding a sponge to her left shoulder and with her left arm outstretched behind her holding a bunch of drapery.
The knife-grinder (le Remouleur):
The companion piece is a white, glazed figure of a man, seated on drapery and kneeling on one knee, hunched over, holding a knife (which rather resembles a sickle) to a whetstone on the ground before him, and with head turned upwards.