Early XVIIIth Century Bronze of a Standing Apolino
Price: € 25000
Bronze 'cire perdue' sculpture of the naked Apolino, standing in elegant pose.
- Leaning against a (separately cast) tree stump with a quiver
- Upraised right arm is bowed over his head
- Beautiful cast with carefully modeled details in the face and haircut after an ancient original
- The cast is showing on the back some tiny cast defaults, which are filled up with pewter
- Rich greenish / brown patination
- On a modern rectangular wooden base
- Note: Frits Scholten curator of the Rijksmuseum has examined this bronze and suggested the surrounding of Francois Duquesnoy
- Origin
- France
- Period
- Louis XIV Period
- Reference
- 181-328
- Sizes
- 61 x 22 x 15 cm
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