A BRONZE MODEL OF A FAUN

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A BRONZE MODEL OF A FAUN
ITALIAN, AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

On a polygonal bronze plinth.
Greenish-brown patina; the fig leaf probably later.
13 7/8in. (35.3cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, no. 39, pp. 213-5, fig. 111

Lot Essay

The original is recorded as having been excavated at Hadrian's Villa in 1736, and is now in the Musei Capitolini. It was particularly admired because of the fact that it was carved out of an unusually large block of close-grained dark-red marble (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.).

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