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Lot 449
Full title: A pair of French Sevres style gold layered blue ground vases with sweet scenes by Collot and a bowl on a bronze base, 19th/20th C.Description: H 53,5 cm (the vases )H 15,4 - 8 cm (the bowl with and without stand) One of the feet of the bronze base inscribed with the number '963'.
Lot 469
Full title: Italian school, after the antique: Bust of the Apollo Belvedere, white marble, ca. 1800Description: H 65 cm The Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ranks among the most celebrated statues from antiquity. Today thought to be a Hadrianic copy, made in c. 120-140 CE, of a 4th-century BCE Greek bronze original, the statue was excavated in Rome in 1489. The marble was recorded in 1509 in the garden of S. Pietro in Vincoli, which was then under the custodianship of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, who became Pope Julius II (1503-1513). By 1511, the Apollo had been installed in the Cortile del Belvedere of the Vatican, and thereafter received a vast amount of attention from artists and commentators alike. The most influential of these was J.J. Winckelmann, who dedicated pages to the Apollo's beauty and hailed it as the embodiment of antique ideals. One of the most amusing descriptions of the Apollo was made by the great American painter Benjamin West. Upon visiting the Eternal City in the summer of 1760, he encountered considerable snobbery from the native populous who mocked him for a perceived lack of sophistication. Anxious to see the impression of this classical exemplar on West's supposedly uncultivated mind, they opened up the doors of the Belvedere to reveal the Apollo, only to be shocked when the painter dryly remarked, 'My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior' (Haskell and Penny, op. cit., p. 150). The statue's fame was further enhanced after it was ceded to Napoleon under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino in 1797, arriving in Paris in a garlanded case in July 1798; it was returned to Rome in January 1816. The Apollo continued to fascinate Grand Tourists through the 19th century (link). Ref.: - A very similar but smaller sculpture sold at Sotheby's London, 5 December 2020, Lot 59 (GBP 10.080, link).
Lot 487
Full title: After the antique: Diana de Gabies, patinated bronze, 19th/20th C.Description: H 53 cm Modelled standing in classical contrapost aside a tree trunk, adjusting her chiton. The figure represents the goddess Artemis, traditionally attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles. The original white marble statue, discovered in 1792 by Gavin Hamilton, became part of the Borghese collection and is nowadays part of the Paris Louvre collection (inventory number Ma 529).
Lot 488
Full title: After Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746): A pair of Marley horses, patinated bronze, France, 19th/20th C.Description: H 58,5 cm Based on the colossal marble pair of the 'Horse Tamers' (Castor and Pollux) on the Capitoline Hill (Rome), the Marly Horses were commissioned in 1739 by Louis XV to the sculptor Guillaume Coustou to adorn the park of the Marly Castle. The originals are nowadays kept in the Louvre Museum.
Lot 493
Full title: After Antonio Canova (1757-1822): The Greek pugilist or boxer Creugas, patinated bronze on a marble base, 19th C.Description: H 29,5 - 26,5 cm (with and without base) The original life-size marble created by Antonio Canova, 1795-1801, is in the collection of the Museo Pio-Clementino of the Vatican (link).
Lot 494
Full title: French school, after Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746): A Marly horse, silver plated bronze on a marble base, 19th/20th C.Description: H 30,5 - 28 cm (with and without base) Based on the colossal marble pair of the 'Horse Tamers' (Castor and Pollux) on the Capitoline Hill (Rome), the Marly Horses were commissioned in 1739 by Louis XV to the sculptor Guillaume Coustou to adorn the park of the Marly Castle. The originals are nowadays kept in the Louvre Museum.
Lot 498
Full title: After Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488): The equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, patinated bronze on a marble base, 19th C.Description: H 57 cm The original equestrian statue is located in Venice, near the Scuola Grande of St Mark outside the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Provenance: - 'Die Furstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis', Sotheby's, Regensburg, October 1993, lot 1067 (StE 4955).
Lot 502
Full title: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887): Four putti making merry, gilt bronze on a vert de mer marble baseDescription: H 59,5 - 52,5 cm (with and without base) This French gilt bronze group of bacchic putti cast by Raingo Freres from the model by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, last quarter of the 19th C. Ref.: - Christie's, London, Sept. 22, 2011, lot 56, for a similar group. (sold GBP 6.875, link).
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