LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A NEAPOLITIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF NARCISSUS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
After the Antique, mounted on a breccia marble plinth
25½in. (64.7cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

The original sculpture currently forms part of the collection in the Museo Nazionale, Naples, having been transferred there shortly after its discovery in a humble Pompeian house in 1862. It is regarded as the last great sculpture of antiquity to be discovered.

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