Venus and Apollo
Venus, bronze, height 21,5 cm
Roman 1st century

Of the capitoline type, depicted standing nude, the weight on her right leg, her left relaxed and bent at the knee, wearing arm bands where her arms would have been separately-cast, turning to the left, wearing a diadem, her hair tied in a top-knot and with a chignon at the base of her head.
Property from the Estate of Molly and Leon Lyon, Newport Beach, California. Acquired from Simone de Montbrison, Paris in 1970.

Apollo, bronze, Height 15 cm
Roman, 1st century BC

Standing in contrapposto with the weight on his right leg, his arms held out, the slender body with defined musculature, the nipples inlaid with cooper, the eye with silver, the hair finely detailed, wearing a wreath with the ribbons falling at his shoulders.
Influenced by Greek bronzes of the 5th-4th Century B.C., the posture of this figure is Polykleitan in style but with the more slender proportions of later Hellenistic sculpture. For a figure of the same period demonstrating a similar combination of styles, cf. M. Bieber, The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, New York, 1955, pp. 163-4, figs. 700-1.
French private collection, Paris, formed between the 1960s and 1980s.