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This bronze shows the kneeling figure of the naked Venus removing the thorn from her foot.  The pose is similar to that of the same subject engraved by Marco Dente (died 1527) after a fresco executed by Raphael's workshop in 1516 for the bathroom of Cardinal Bibbiena in Rome. The terracotta model for this figure, which was formerly painted to imitate bronze, is now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The Dente engraving was once in the collection of the artist François Girardon; it is mentioned in the inventory made after his death in 1710 and appears in an engraving of the Galerie de Girardon of the same date.\r\n \r\nPonce Jacqueau, who also worked in Rome, was one of the leading Parisian sculptors of his day. The figure of Venus is closely related in style and handling to the bronze figures of  Prudence and Temperance that he made for the funerary monument of Henry II of France in the abbey church of Saint-Denis in Paris, in about 1565-1570.  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