Lot Essay
The full length figure by Canova is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA
Details
AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BUST OF PERSEUS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA
21½in. (54.6cm.) high
Together with a green serpentine marble columnar pedestal -- 42in. (106.6cm.) high
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA
21½in. (54.6cm.) high
Together with a green serpentine marble columnar pedestal -- 42in. (106.6cm.) high
Special notice
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Sale room notice
The bust is of Perseus, not Mercury as in the printed catalogue, and derives from the figure by Antonio Canova, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.