A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE FLORA

BY GIOVANNI ZOFFOLI, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE FLORA
By Giovanni Zoffoli, late 18th or early 19th century
On an integrally cast plinth signed with initials on the right side 'G.Z.F.'.
Greenish brown patina with medium brown high points.
13 in. (33 cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 217-9, 342.

拍品专文

The Farnese Flora, at 3.42 metres one of the most monumental of all the antiquities of Rome, was much copied on a reduced scale both in marble and bronze, notably by Rysbrack at Stourhead (Haskell and Penny, op. cit., fig. 43). The fact that the left hand in this version is shown holding a chaplet proves that it dates from before 1819, by which date Tagliolini had turned the hand outwards and replaced the chaplet with a nosegay (Haskell and Penny, op. cit., fig. 113). The 'Flora di Farnese' features in the sale catalogue of small bronzes by Giovanni Zoffoli, which is datable to around 1794-6, and is recorded as having cost 18 zecchini (Haskell and Penny, op. cit., p. 342).