拍品专文
Adamo Tadolini (1788-1868) worked in the atelier of Canova, and was widely regarded as the most gifted of all his pupils and associates. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1830.
The subject of the present group is based upon the flight of Aeneas from Troy, and shows him carrying his aged father Anchises, with his son Ascanius by his side. In Virgil's account - and indeed in Barocci's painting of the subject in the Borghese Gallery in Rome - they are accompanied by Aeneas' wife, Creusa, who got lost in the darkness, but sculptors tended to favour a three-figure group. A celebrated example by Pierre Lepautre, inspired by a model by François Girardon, was originally designed for the Gardens at Marly, before being moved to the Tuileries and ending up in the Louvre.
The subject of the present group is based upon the flight of Aeneas from Troy, and shows him carrying his aged father Anchises, with his son Ascanius by his side. In Virgil's account - and indeed in Barocci's painting of the subject in the Borghese Gallery in Rome - they are accompanied by Aeneas' wife, Creusa, who got lost in the darkness, but sculptors tended to favour a three-figure group. A celebrated example by Pierre Lepautre, inspired by a model by François Girardon, was originally designed for the Gardens at Marly, before being moved to the Tuileries and ending up in the Louvre.