A BRONZE STATUETTE OF A DANCING FAUN

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A BRONZE STATUETTE OF A DANCING FAUN
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, 19TH CENTURY

On a square bronze and a square wooden pedestal.
Brown patina.
9½in. (24.1cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 205-8, no. 34, fig. 106

Lot Essay

Although the Dancing Faun in the Uffizi is first recorded in a publication of 1665, it must have been known earlier in the 17th century, as is proved by Adrien de Vries's adaptation of it (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu), if not before. The only unusual feature of the present reduction is the addition of a foliate loincloth in place of a figleaf.

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