AFTER FLAMINIO VACCA, 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE MODEL OF THE MEDICI LION
AFTER FLAMINIO VACCA, 19TH CENTURY
Inscribed to the plinth 'MAISON BLANCHE, 12.RUE ALBERTI.NICE', on a pink breccia marble base, modern
25¼ in. (64 cm.) high; 32½ in. (83 cm.) wide

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The huge original model of this lion was carved by Flaminio Vacca in the 16th Century, as a pendant for the Antique (which is modelled with its proper right paw on the ball rather than left), and the pair once stood in the garden of the Villa Medici. They are now on the steps of the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.
Comparative literature: F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1981, pp. 247-250.