CIRCA 1880, AFTER THE ANTIQUE

Details

AN ITALIAN WHITE-MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SLEEPING ARIADNE
CIRCA 1880, AFTER THE ANTIQUE
The base inset with a Sicilian jasper panel, weathering, damages and losses
21 1/2 in. (55 cm.) high; 32 in. (81.5 cm.) long; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Known as The Sleeping Ariadne, and also often identified as Cleopatra, this reclining figure is after the antique prototype dating from the late Hadrianic period (itself a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek prototype) in the collection of The Musei Vaticani, Rome.

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