Focus on this artwork and explore the Modern copies.
Many copies have been produced since the Renaissance, in a variety of media and scales. Full size copies were produced for Philip IV of Spain in bronze, ordered by Velázquez and now in the Prado Museum, and for Versailles (by the sculptor Martin Carlier, in marble). The composition has clearly influenced Velázquez's painting of the Rokeby Venus, now in London. A reduced-scale bronze copy, made and signed by Giovanni Francesco Susini, is now at the Metropolitan Museum. Another reduced-scale copy, this time produced in ivory by François Duquesnoy, was purchased in Rome by John Evelyn in the 1640s. American artist Barry X Ball produced a life-size copy after the Louvre's version, made from Belgian black marble on a Carrara marble base, which was completed in 2010.
This sculpture was offered for sale at Christies, New York, on 10 May 2016. The estimated price was $500,000–800,000.
Martin Carlier Rokeby Venus Prado Museum François Duquesnoy Carrara marble Metropolitan Museum Versailles Belgian black marble Giovanni Francesco Susini Venus Velázquez John Evelyn Louvre Philip IV of Spain Barry X Ball