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Andrew Lacey (b. 1969)

The Rape of the Sabine Women cast

Bronze | 19.4 x 14.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 75598

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  • A small bronze sculpture after Nicolas Poussin's study for the Rape of the Sabine Women (RCIN 911904). A nude man is holding a nude woman off the ground; with circular base.

    The statuette is a bronze cast from a wax that was modelled by Lacey for display in the National Gallery's exhibition 'Poussin and the Dance' (2021-22), in the same gallery as the drawing that inspired it. Poussin is reported to have made small wax models which he draped and arranged on a 'stage' as he developed his compositions. This is evident in many of his composition drawings, where discrete groups are moved around from one drawing to the next, and in some individual figure studies, which have every appearance of being drawn from small three-dimensional models. None of Poussin's wax figures survive, so for the exhibition Lacey was commissioned to create an idea of what such figure might have looked like. The wax model was subsequently cast in bronze.
    Provenance

    Donated to the Royal Collection by the artist, 2022.

  • Medium and techniques

    Bronze

    Measurements

    19.4 x 14.2 cm (whole object)

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