AFTER THE ANTIQUE: A MARBLE BUST OF THE MEDICI VENUS, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY with typically arranged hair, her head turned to sinister, the back of the bust rusticated, later mounted on a marble cylindrical socle, the bust 25cm high, 34cm high overall The Medici Venus was a Roman copy of a Greek sculpture by Cleomenes of Athens, the sculpture was famous throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th century, when it was seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre.