Lot 239
  • 239

ITALIAN, ROME, 18TH/19TH CENTURY | Sleeping Ariadne

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sleeping Ariadne
  • marble with variegated marble base
  • length 32 in.; 81 cm.

Condition

Lovely surface. Could use light cleaning with cloth. Overall minor chipping and some inclusions in the marble creating pin-sized divots (see catalogue image). Four fingers on proper right hand and one finger on proper left have been broken and reattached/restored. Otherwise, some chipping to lower edge of base. Otherwise, overall very good condition and quality.
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Catalogue Note

Known as The Sleeping Ariadne, and also often identified as Cleopatra, this reclining figure was carved after the antique prototype dating from the late Hadrianic period (itself a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek prototype) in the collection of The Musei Vaticani, Rome. The statue was first recorded in 1512 as having been acquired by Pope Julius II. RELATED LITERATURE
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven and London, 1981, no. 24, pp. 184-187