TWO PLASTER RELIEF PANELS DEPICTING ALEXANDRIAN WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK

ALMOST CERTAINLY AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (1770-1844), 20TH CENTURY

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TWO PLASTER RELIEF PANELS DEPICTING ALEXANDRIAN WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK
ALMOST CERTAINLY AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (1770-1844), 20TH CENTURY
In painted frames
Each 24 in. (61 cm.) high; one 62½ in. (159 cm.) wide the other 56 in. (142 cm.) wide (including frames) (2)

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Lot Essay

These two panels are almost certainly after Bertel Thorvaldsen's depiction of the triumphant entry of Alexander the Great and his armies into Babylonia.
Marble versions commissioned by Napoleon Bonapart for the Pantheon, Paris, are in the collection of the Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo, Italy.

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