Description
The Bathing Venus sculpture is also known as the Venus of Allegrain. Is a marble statue sculpted by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (France, 1710–1795), and was first exhibited in 1767 at the “Salon”, a periodic exhibition of painting and sculpture that took place periodically at the Louvre in Paris. Louis XV of France gave the statue to Madame Du Barry in 1772; that he placed her in the gardens of her castle in Louveciennes.
