拍品 24
24
AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF GERMANICUS, shown standing naked, his cloak draped over his left arm, his right hand raised in a proclamatory gesture (on grey marble socle and oval veined marble column), 19th Century

細節
AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF GERMANICUS, shown standing naked, his cloak draped over his left arm, his right hand raised in a proclamatory gesture (on grey marble socle and oval veined marble column), 19th Century
32in. (81.3cm.) high the figure
35½in. (90.2cm.) high the column
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1981, pp. 219-220, No. 42

拍品專文

The present marble is after an Antique statue of Germanicus, known to have been copied for Philip IV of Spain in 1650, and certainly in the collection of Prince Savelli in the 1660's. Its sale in 1685-6 to Louis XIV and subsequent export to France, caused an outcry in Italy, and led the Pope to instigate new restrictions on the export of works of art.
Variously known as Germanicus, Augustus, Brutus or A Roman Orator, the original statue is inscribed in Greek "Cleomenes, son of Cleomenes, Athenian", the same name which appears on the celebrated Venus de' Medici.