Dalva Brothers Antiques, Antique Furniture, New York

French 18th century furniture, clocks, lighting, paintings, porcelain, sculpture and tapestries

Fine white marble statuette of “Venus Instructing Cupid.”  Formerly attributed to Falconet, new scholarship gives this group of sculptures to Joseph or Jean

Baptiste Broche (See : Falconet à Sèvres : Éditions RMN ; Paris, 2001. Pages 39-45 and pages 97-98) 

Ex Collection: Baron James de Rothschild; Paris, December 1966, lot 75.

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