Comment on Ropp's Commission 1804-05
Because of blots on the paper, the entry for this bust’s height in NN, Catalogue des Tableaux…, op. cit., cat. no. 7, is no longer legible. However, because the busts appear to be listed in the catalogue in descending order of height, it may be inferred that the height of Venus is between that of cat. no. 6, Melpomene (67.7 cm) and that of cat. no. 8, Homer (62.3 cm). This would make Venus at least 10 cm taller than the height registered on the 1927 photograph.
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