Cupid Seated by the Sea and Assembling the Doves of the Chariot of Venus
by VASSÉ, Louis-Claude, Marble, height 61 cm
This marble group, commissioned by the collector Ange Laurent La Live de Jully, was exhibited at the Salon of 1757. It entered two collections in residences near Paris: that of Louis XV’s mistress Madame Du Barry at Louveciennes, then that of Jos�phine de Beauharnais, Napoleon I’s first wife, at Malmaison.