Angelique has turned up again after 137 years, though frankly, given that she stands over 2m tall, weighs several tonnes, and is wearing nothing except a scrap of drapery and a chain, it's staggering that she went unnoticed for so long.
"She does make quite an effect," said Alexander Kader, head of sculpture at auctioneers Sotheby's. "She was just standing there in a rather large entrance hallway. The fortunate thing is that she was never put out in a garden, she's always been kept indoors, so the condition is just lovely."
The statue was the masterpiece of the French sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, in whose studio the young Rodin trained.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/01/2003248635
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