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    LIECHTENSTEIN: Property from the Collection of the Princely House of Liechtenstein.

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    1 April 2008

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    • A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BORGHES
    Lot 313

    A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BORGHESE GLADIATOR

    BY ANGELO DE ROSSI, ROME, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    EUR 7,450

    Estimate

    EUR 10,000 - EUR 15,000

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    A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BORGHESE GLADIATOR
    BY ANGELO DE ROSSI, ROME, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
    On an integrally cast base inscribed ANGELO DEROSSI ROMA and painted in red with inventory number F.619, on a rectangular fluted white marble base
    25.5 cm. high; 32 cm. high overall

    Provenance

    Vienna, before 1944.
    Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1944.
    On loan to the Bank in Liechtenstein AG, Vaduz, 1988.
    Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1998.

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    Lot Essay

    This beautiful rendition of the Borghese gladiator was made in the late 18th century when the popularity of reductions after the antique was at a high point. These classical sculptures, mostly displayed in Rome and Naples were highly regarded throughout Europe and no art collection was complete without at least one such statue. The Borghese gladiator was found at Nettuno before 1611 and added to the Borghese collection in Rome. At the Villa Borghese it stood in a ground-floor room named for it. Sold to Napoleon by Camillo Borghese in 1807, it was taken to Paris when the Borghese collection was acquired for the Louvre Museum[2], where it now resides. Misnamed a gladiator due to an erroneous restoration, it was among the most admired and copied works of antiquity in the eighteenth century
    Another fine bronze of the farnese Hercules signed ANGELO DEROSSI ROMA was sold by Sothebys London, 6 July 2007, lot 152.

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    “!” Lots imported from outside the EU. The Buyer’s Premium is 37.05% incl. VAT over the first €5,000, plus 31.1% incl. VAT of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 21.58% incl. VAT of any amount in excess of €400,001.


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