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Lot Essay
Giacomo and his bother Giovanni Zoffoli worked in Rome in the second half of the 18th century, creating exquisitely worked bronze models of famous antique statues for discerning Grand Tour travellers. A copy of their catalogue exists in the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of correspondence sent by Charles Heathcote Chatham to Henry Holland between 1794 and 1796, in which the present pieces can be identified as 'Agrippina Madre di Nerone' and 'Silla Console, sedente'.
Agrippina is a copy of the marble figure now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome (Haskell and Penny, loc.cit). The original marble of the male figure is in the Vatican and was identified as Sulla by Winckelmann, but is now thought to represent Menander. A pair such as the present lot can be seen at Saltram Park, Devon, where it was part of a garniture for the mantelpiece in the Saloon, composed of several figures by the Zoffoli.
Agrippina is a copy of the marble figure now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome (Haskell and Penny, loc.cit). The original marble of the male figure is in the Vatican and was identified as Sulla by Winckelmann, but is now thought to represent Menander. A pair such as the present lot can be seen at Saltram Park, Devon, where it was part of a garniture for the mantelpiece in the Saloon, composed of several figures by the Zoffoli.