A BRONZE GROUP OF A LION ATTACKING A HORSE

细节

A BRONZE GROUP OF A LION ATTACKING A HORSE
AFTER THEN ANTIQUE, ROMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

The fallen horse resisting the attacking lion ----- 11¾in. (30cm.) long, on ebonized wood base, greenish brown patina

来源

Count Sebastiano Barozzi, Venice, Italy

展览

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven/London, 1981, pp. 250-251, fig. 128

拍品专文

The original marble group, from which this is derived, is in the garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. From the time of Giambologna and Susini onward it was a favourite subject and was reproduced by the foundrymen of Rome in the late 18th century for sale to people on the Grand Tours.