Italian school of the 19th century (After Antonio Canova) Head of Pâris White marble Height: 53 cm While working on a commission for Empress Josephine for a full-length statue of Paris (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg), Canova sculpted a bust of the Trojan shepherd for his friend Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, the French neoclassical theorist and critic (Chicago, Art Institute, no. 1984.530) from whom our sculpture is inspired. 19th century Italian school (After Antonio Canova)