A BRONZE GROUP OF BACCHUS AND A FAUN

Details

A BRONZE GROUP OF BACCHUS AND A FAUN
BY FRANCESCO RIGHETTI, 1791

Signed and dated on the side of the base 'F.RIGHETTI.F.ROMAE.1791'. Green patina.
13in. (33cm.) 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, p. 343

Exhibited

London, Heim Gallery, Paintings and Sculptures 1770-1830, 11 Sept. -21 Dec. 1972, p. 21, no. 35

Lot Essay

In Francesco Righetti's 1794 catalogue 'Aux amateurs de l'Antiquité et des Beaux Arts', the present bronze is described as 'Bacchus et un Faune de Florence', and was available at a cost of 33 zecchini (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.). It was based on an antique marble group, now as then housed in the Uffizi in Florence.

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