A cast bronze model of Silenus with the infant Dionysus - image-1

Lot 224 Dα

A cast bronze model of Silenus with the infant Dionysus

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A cast bronze model of Silenus with the infant Dionysus

Cast bronze with blackish golden patina. Patinated fully sculpted figural group with an integral angular plinth. One side of the plinth sawn off, with a drilled hole for a screw in the centre. H 24 cm.
Italy, late 18th / 19th century.

The work upon which this sculpture is based is an ancient marble copy of a bronze originally attributed to Lysippus, dated to the second half of the 4th century B.C., and today kept in the Vatican Museums (inv. no. MV.2292.0.0), with a second version being housed in the Louvre (inv. no. MR 346 and N 280). The Roman marble versions date from the 1st to the 2nd century A.D.