LOS ANGELES—The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Pietro Cipriani’s bronze casts of Venus de' Medici and Dancing Faun after a failed attempt by the British Cultural Ministry to keep the works in England, reports the Los Angeles Times. The British Cultural Ministry was unable to raise an officially recommended price of $10 million, resulting in the acquisition of the works by the Getty from London dealer Daniel Katz for an unreported sum.

The nudes, both of which are based on sculptures in the collection of the Medici family and are now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, were originally commissioned by George Parker, the 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, in 1724, and remained in the family before finally going to the block at Christie’s London in December 2005. After failing to sell for the estimated $4-8 million value, they were privately bought by Katz.

According to Antonia Bostrom, the Getty’s curator of sculpture and decorative arts, the two pieces will complement Adriaen de Vries’s Juggling Man — an earlier version of the Dancing Faun — in the West Pavilion of the Getty’s collection.