# African Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORDIER, Charles-Henri-Joseph]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Bronze, height 50 cm \(with base\) ## Commentary Cordier submitted a plaster cast of the bust of an African visitor to Paris to the Salon of 1848, and two years later he again entered it as a bronze. A young African woman served as the model for the companion piece, called African Venus, in 1851. ## Related artworks - [African Venus]() - [La Capresse des Colonies]() - [La Capresse des Colonies \(The Goat Tender of the Colonies\)]() - [La Juivre d'Alger \(detail\)]() - [La Juivre d'Alger \(The Jewish Woman of Algiers\)]() - [La Juivre d'Alger \(The Jewish Woman of Algiers\)]() - [Love One Another]() - [Negro of the Sudan]() - [Said Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur \(Sudan\)]() - [Young Abyssinian Woman]() - [Young Girl from the Environs of Rome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()