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Artist:

Antoine Andre

Title:

Flore Farnese

Year:
1676
Adress:
Jardin des Tuileries
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Flore, est une tres ancienne divinite de l'Italie centrale, qui presidait a l'epanouissement des fleurs au printemps. Elle etait l'une des douze divinites que l'on apaisait par des sacrifices expiatoires, lors de quelque evenement extraordinaire.
La Flore Farnese d’Antoine Andre, en marbre blanc, est datee de 1676. Jean-Baptiste Colbert a donne la possibilite a ce sculpteur d’origine picarde de devenir pensionnaire de l'Academie de France a Rome, ou il execute cette copie, a partir du celebre modele antique actuellement conserve au Musee archeologique national de Naples.
La statue d’Antoine Andre, dont les proportions monumentales sont toutefois inferieures a celles de l'original, avait ete placee pres de l'Orangerie, a proximite de l'Hercule Farnese. Apres 1793, lorsque le Domaine de Sceaux devint bien national, de nombreuses statues furent dispersees dans plusieurs sites parisiens. Parmi celles-ci figuraient l'Hercule et la Flore Farnese, toutes deux installees a partir de 1796 dans le jardin des Tuileries, a Paris. Les statues de marbre ont rejoint les collections de sculptures du musee de l'Île-de-France dans la galerie de l'Orangerie.
Des moulages de tres grande qualite ont ete installes a proximite de l'edifice, a l'emplacement originel des marbres.

Translation
Flora, is the very ancient divinity of central Italy, which presided over the blooming of flowers in spring. It was one of twelve divinities which we calmed by expiatory sacrifices, during some extraordinary event.
Flore Farnese d'Antoine Andre, marble white, is dated 1676. Jean-Baptiste Colbert gave the possibility to this sculptor of picarde origin to become a boarder of the Academy of France in Rome, where he executes this copy, from the antique famous model at present kept to the national archaeological Museum of Naples.
Antoine Andre's statue, the monumental proportions of which are however lower than those of the original, had been placed near the Orangery, near the Hercule Farnese. After 1793, when the Domain of Seals became national property, numerous statues were scattered in several Parisian sites. Among these represented Hercule and the Flora Farnese, both installed from 1796 in the garden of the Tuileries, in Paris. Marble statues joined the collections of sculptures of the museum of the Ile-de-France in the gallery of the Orangery.
Moldings of very high quality were installed near the building, in the original place of the marble.