AFTER CLAUDE MICHEL CLODION (FRENCH, 1738-1814): AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURE OF A GIRL WITH DOVES the figure standing a contra posto beside a classical style urn ornamented with a pair of serpents and floral garlands, raising her skirts to hold a pair of doves, on an integral square base, dark brown patination, raised on a marble and gilt bronze mounted plinth, 52cm high This bronze statuette is after the Clodion terracotta example, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv. No. 49.7.64a. The composition is reminiscent of the famous Antique Hellenistic figure of the Venus Callipyge, who pulls aside her drapery to reveal her behind, which at that time was in the Farnese Collection.  49.7.64a