BENEDETTO BOSCHETTI (FL. 1820-1879) | RESTING SATYR

The Resting Satyr (or Capitoline Faun) is one of the most prized ancient marbles in the Capitoline Museums (inv. no. 739) and is believed to be an ancient Roman copy of a Greek original which has been attributed to Praxiteles. Benedetto Boschetti led a workshop on the Via Condotti in Rome that became one of the foremost in producing fine bronzes after the antique for a Grand Tour clientele. Boschetti himself is recorded as having won a prize medal at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and a bronze 'Augustus Caesar' from his workshop was exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The present bronze is an exemplar of Boschetti's high quality casting and exhibits a beautiful golden brown patina.

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori italiani dell'ottocento e del primo novecento, Turin, 2003, vol. 1, p. 104