A PAIR OF BRONZE GROUPS OF EUROPA AND THE BULL AND NESSUS AND DEIANEIRA

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A PAIR OF BRONZE GROUPS OF EUROPA AND THE BULL AND NESSUS AND DEIANEIRA
FRENCH, LATE 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS LESPINGOLA

Olive green patina
9½in. (24cm.), and 8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) high, mounted on stepped marble plinths (2)

Lot Essay

Other pairs are in the collections at Dresden and Drottingholm Castle, Stockholm (see U. Berger and V. Krahn, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Braunschweig, 1994, p. 323). The single group of the Death of the Centaur Nessus exists in many public and private collections.