Neoclassical Bronze Young Centaur Statue

20TH CENTURY A.D.

20 7/8 in. (10.3 kg, 53 cm high).

A bronze figure of a centaur in animated pose with upper body turned, right arm raised, left arm bent and hand holding a cudgel supported on the shoulder; cloak draped over the left shoulder and skin of a boar folded over the left forearm; on a tiered socle base.

Provenance

French collection, 1960s-early 2000s.
From an important Paris gallery, France.

Footnotes

Modelled on the so-called Capitoline Centaurs, specifically the Young Centaur, which was found as one of a pair of centaurs during the excavation of Hadrian’s Villa in 1736; the Roman Old and Young centaur pair were themselves based on Hellenistic originals.

CONDITION

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LOT 0393