AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DANCING FAUN
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Depicted standing with his right foot on a scabellum and with a cymbal in each hand; on an integrally cast rectangular base with tree-trunk support; medium brown patina with warm brown high points
27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi - Le Sculture, Rome, 1961, I, p. 80, no. 51.
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 205-208, no. 34, fig. 106.

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Lot Essay

The Dancing Faun, like the Venus de' Medici with which it was so often paired, was housed in the Tribuna of the Uffizi and was considered to be one of the most beautiful marble sculptures remaining from antiquity, a reputation which it continues to enjoy today. It was first recorded with certainty in a book published by the son of the painter Rubens in 1665, at which time it was already in the Medici collections, and by 1688 it had been moved to its present location (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.).

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