Lot n° 180
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
Italian school of the late eighteenth century,... - Lot 180 - Daguerre
Italian school of the late eighteenth century, after the ancient
Bacchus and Ariadne
Bronze with brown patina.
Patina wears.
H. 26 cm Related
works:
Bacchus and Ariadne, Greco-Roman copy, Rome, Imperial Period
, ca. I-II century BC and
18th century restorations, marble sculpture, 88.9 x 43.2 cm, Boston
fine Arts Museum, N°inv.68.770. Francesco Carradori
(1747-1824), Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1777,
marble sculpture, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina.
This charming bronze group depicting the mythical couple
of the god Bacchus and the daughter of King Minos,
Ariadne, bears witness to the immense interest and appropriation
of ancient statuary by the Italian
artistic community in the second half of the 18th century.
Our sculpture is inspired by a Greco-Roman copy of the
imperial period representing Priape accompanied by a
menade, restored in the 18th century. The intervention carried out
on the Roman work transformed the group into a scene
of intertwining between Bacchus and Ariadne, responding to the
concept of "embellishment" of the neo-classical school.
The fascination for ancient sculpture in general, and the unusually lively
combination of unity and forward movement
of the work thus recomposed in particular,
prompted many artists to execute copies
of this subject, particularly in marble, such as those executed
by the famous sculptor-restors-restorers based in Rome,
Francesco Carradori (1747-1824), Carlo Albacini (1770-1807
), Francesco Maximilien Laboureur (1767-1831). Our
copy in reduced format and in bronze makes it a highly desirable and quality
object for collectors and
travellers on the Grand Tour.
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